Word: switch
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...this month, as our reporter April H.N. Yee ’08 began investigating the switch to coeducational living, I started to have a better idea. If there’s anything that has a proven track record of vindicating the blunders of the lame and the insane, it’s history...
...spring of 1970, 150 Harvard men and 150 Radcliffe women agreed to switch places in the colleges’ first experiment in co-ed housing. Men moved up to the Quad to share bathrooms with Radcliffe women, and women moved to the River to walk the men’s hallways. The experiment was a success: the two colleges traded nearly 700 students the following fall...
From the Quad’s North, South, and East Houses, 150 women would switch places with 150 men from the River’s Winthrop, Adams, and Lowell Houses. The next semester, 335 of each switched to even more Houses...
...never been too big a fan of dining manners. Obtuse rules about the way you should hold your fork or whether to switch hands when you cut seem to be pretty irrelevant when we consider all the other things we could be spending our time on. But even for the most relaxed amongst us, there are certain rules so inviolable that to break them is to be cast out from the dining hall community faster (alright, much faster) than a chickwich comes off the grill. Thus, in order to promote harmony and a better relationship between all eaters, I present...
...Iraqi forces are utterly feeble," the magazine notes. "At present, only some 5,000 of them are a match for the insurgents; perhaps as many as 12,000 are fairly self-sufficient. Most of the rest are unmotivated, unreliable, ill-trained, ill-equipped, prone to desertion, even ready to switch sides. If the Americans left today, they would be thrashed...