Word: switch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...used to play mostly midfield, but it was not a difficult switch. Wing fit my abilities. I wasn't really strong enough to play the middle here, and I was quick enough to play on the wing...
...Callinan takes a hand-off, pops through a big hole on the right side of the line and rambles for 22 yards. The Man remembers Harvard's 4-0 record on the road. He stops the projector, flips a switch, and Callinan bounces up off the ground, out of his tackler's clutches and back through the hole, which quickly closes up. The play runs again, the result is the same. The Man stretches his arms over his head. And runs the play again...
...solar power," he says. "But my instructor said that even with a strong backround in physics and a Harvard degree there was no guarantee." He adds that the only way he could have stayed in the program without risk of having to work with weapons would have been to switch from a technical to a non-technical (liberal arts) scholarship, none of which were available at the time...
...consider instituting some form of pre-registration for classes, in an effort to help Harvard apportion classrooms and teaching fellows more efficiently. Members have said the council will not approve any plan preventing student from changing tentatively selected courses. But some administrators do support financial penalties for students who switch course selections after opening day. Those sanctions would effectively curtail the freedom to shop around for classes that is now one of Harvard's wisest academic policies...
Shopping period, whatever the inconveniences it creates for administrators, is one of the few safeguards protecting undergraduates from unsatisfactory lecturers or unpredictable courses. Students exposed to dreary orators can switch courses freely, for ten days at least; undergraduates unaware of course requirements or concepts can avoid being locked into classes that don't turn out to be what their name suggests...