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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PEASANT. A worker at the Ma Chang Commune in Honan will rise at dawn, come rain or shine. Before a breakfast of corn dumpling soup and tea, he will spend two hours plowing the stony earth while his wife cleans their two-room hut, then joins him in the fields. A member of a 300-man production team-one of six on the commune-he will then have to face three hours in the field before a brief lunch of millet, sorghum and tea. Then it is back to the fields until sundown. Before supper-occasionally it may include meat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Life in the Middle Kingdom | 2/21/1972 | See Source »

...Tea before meetings is an old tradition which had lapsed since the Spring of 1969, when the number of members attending meetings forced the Faculty to move first to the Loeb Drama Center, then to Sanders Theatre. In the aftermath of the University Hall bust in 1969, there were sometimes two meetings a week to handle all the items on the docket...

Author: By Michael Ryan, | Title: Faculty Members Take Their Tea--And Their Time | 2/16/1972 | See Source »

...silver tea urn got the afternoon off to an inauspicious start yesterday, when its handle jammed. After years of desuetude, the machine seemed reluctant to return to its old functions. The staff worked over the urn for a few moments, and got it back into shape as the Faculty began to queue for tea...

Author: By Michael Ryan, | Title: Faculty Members Take Their Tea--And Their Time | 2/16/1972 | See Source »

Faculty members began drifting in at 3:30 p.m. just as tea began, and about 70 were present by 4 p.m. when the meeting was scheduled to start. Dean Dunlop came early and circulated through the group, although he abstained from tea...

Author: By Michael Ryan, | Title: Faculty Members Take Their Tea--And Their Time | 2/16/1972 | See Source »

President Bok arrived just before the scheduled meeting time, went directly to his seat without passing the tea, and began the meeting. At about 4:10 p.m., the 131st professor filed in--giving the meeting a quorum...

Author: By Michael Ryan, | Title: Faculty Members Take Their Tea--And Their Time | 2/16/1972 | See Source »

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