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American Cablesystems already has begun studying Harvard dorms--Thayer, an old building, Currier House, a new one, and Lowell House, something in between--to determine how difficult cable installation would be. American, the 12th largest cable company in the nation, has never wired a major university before...
...preliminary report, cable engineers determined that it will be impossible to wire Thayer for cable because of problems with the physical structure of the building. Currier and Lowell will be investigated in the next two weeks...
...about the same time, Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan explained, without saying it in so many words, that this nation's new frontier had to be the task of becoming a great world power. We were, of course, that and more by the time World War II ended. Presidential Science Adviser Vannevar Bush described the logical progression in a report to Harry Truman, "Science--The Endless Frontier." The U.S., through research and its rapid application to the lives of people, would conquer other realms. There were those stars that the quirky European philosopher Paracelsus had dreamed of dominating. Going into space...
What began as an especially malicious round of the "Thayer sucks, Holworthy bites" war of verbs had escalated into a classwide snowball fight of avalanche proportions. Yet the sight of hundreds of impassioned first-year Harvardians clashing and writhing about the snow-packed ground with reckless abandon, was not just an example of the old run-of-the-mill Veritas spirit. No, this was a rare attack of the Wild Weather Syndrome--the third to hit the Yard this year...
...understand the people, including how they live and what they eat, you won't see the larger picture," said Joshua Thayer '87, one of the club's founders...