Word: used
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deny themselves the God-given pleasures of sexual play. I figured that anybody intelligent enough to get into Harvard would not let something as puerile as religious convictions prevent her from living a normal adult life. Sure, I wrote the perfunctory essay about how I was going to use my Harvard education for the benefit of mankind, or, at least, to enhance my ability to appreciate the complexity of life around me. But, as I later learned in Psych 1650, my unconscious had other plans...
...Harvard's extensive real estate holding in Cambridge, however, that cause the real town-gown friction. The University owns so much land that last year it created its own real estate company. Harvard's behavior as a landlord, however, has not been particularly exemplary. The University tried to use its rights as a large real estate holder (in the Square over 20 per cent) to block a proposal to limit the height of buildings in Harvard Square. The city filed a lawsuit challenging Harvard's move...
Porter Square, a mile north of Harvard Square, is a rundown area that will probably boom when its new MBTA stop is completed. Right now, Harvard students use it mainly as a landmark on the way to Steve's, a Somerville ice cream parlor famous first for its long lines, and only secondarily for its ice cream. For the adventurous, there is Game Time, a classic pinball parlor that Cambridge cops and politicians have tried several times to close down. There's also a Sears, Roebuck, a haven of middle-Americana only a mile away from the cosmopolitan--and expensive...
Armistead would not comment on the possibility of an eminent domain takeover of the lot, which Cambridge could only perform if it planned to use the land for a public purpose...
Better recruiting and increased use of the College Board search services led to the "overall best year of minority admissions," Fitzsimmons said, adding that he hopes recruiting by minority students will have a "positive snowball effect," especially among Spanish-speaking students...