Word: sure
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...already surprised many people. "I knew, or thought I knew, Nixon in the 1950s," says Rossiter, whose The American Presidency has become a standard college text. "I thought I knew him in 1962; I thought I knew him during the last campaign. But now I'm not so sure I know him. I don't think anyone has a clear idea of what Nixon's going to do on any issue." The office is malleable, and Nixon has many choices. There is only one certainty. He does not have unlimited time in which to make his decisions...
Until the acceptances come out next month, even Harrison won't know for sure what kind of a freshman team he'll have next season. But some of the other Eastern coaches already see the Crimsons a building power...
...thought it was sweet, and that they really meant it, and sure...
...other hand, a free competition for 1500 places in the Harvard-Radcliffe freshman class would be sure to reduce the number of male graduates, and such a reduction, say several Faculty members, is "unthinkable." One administrator in fat has predicted that the merger will not be approved if the four to one ratio is changed, without a concurrent expansion of the College. And expanding the College, to judge by the Gill Committee's recommendation that Mather House be used instead for deconversion and the Wolff Committee's more recent conclusion that the size of the graduate school be reduced...
Talk about the coeducation that is coming degenerates quickly into questions which are now unanswerable. It is hard to distinguish the trivial from the substantive objection, hard even to be sure whether coeducational living will have a major or negligible impact on undergraduates. Many of the reservations reduce to cold assertions of male Harvard's self-interest. One Faculty member compares the merger rather coarsely to "a rich man marrying a poor girl--he had better be pretty sure that he's getting some spiritual benefits before he goes through with it." That spirit has been well hidden...