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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After confusing concentration dinners, conferences, and dining room conversations with equally uncertain classmates, the freshman must select a field of concentration. As Mrs. Bunting explained, early in her sophomore year the student often concludes that any decision eliminates many possible courses and even careers. Freshman advisers often urge students to experiment with courses; sophomore tutors point out the limits on erimentation imposed by concentration requirements...

Author: By Hrather J. Dubrow, | Title: The Sophomore Year At Radcliffe: I | 12/18/1963 | See Source »

...uncertain what the results of a referendum would be. On the one hand, sophomores throughout the college were reported up in arms over the RGA decision. Helen S. Garvy '64, who introduced the motion, predicted Thursday that a referendum would reverse the RGA vote, which, she said, "certainly does not reflect the general feeling in the college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 110 'Cliffies Ask Rules Referendum; College May Begin 4th House in '64 | 12/14/1963 | See Source »

...uncertain whether the motion will come to a vote today, and the outcome of such a vote is equally foggy. Although RGA representatives generally supported the motion last spring, some observers feel that Mrs. Bunting's report may have changed some votes...

Author: By Ellen Lake, | Title: RGA Braces for New Rules Fight; Gilman Even Picks a Representative | 12/12/1963 | See Source »

President Johnson may have attended Southwest Texas State Teacher's College, but Harvard can still claim a good portion of the government's Executive Branch for its own. Although the future of President Kennedy's personal White House staff--former professors Bundy and Schlesinger included--is uncertain, five former Harvard faculty members continue to serve in the administrative positions they have held since 1961. All have exhausted thir two-year leaves from the University and all have thoroughly enjoyed their "temporary" stay in Washington...

Author: By David M. Gordon, | Title: Harvard's Other Federal Administrators | 12/7/1963 | See Source »

...catalog the haughty grimaces, pomopus sneers, supplicating grins, and rapturous ecstasies of Martin's face as he suffers the uncertainty of uncertain royalty would surpass the capacities of the British Museum...

Author: By Joel E. Cohen, | Title: The Gondoliers | 12/6/1963 | See Source »

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