Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strike's third day, many Union teaching fellows had ceased their protest and returned to work. The steering committee thus concluded that a vote to extend the strike would be a vote to extend the strike exhausted picket force circling one or two buildings in sub-freezing weather. Except for a few exceptions, the students themselves were not willing to continue the battle for the sake of symbolism...
...weather was horrendous for track and field competition yesterday, forcing four field events indoors, but it made little difference to the Harvard-Yale thinclads in their meet with a squad of Oxford-Cambridge, England athletes. The Crimson-Eli tandem crushed the visiting English team, 11-5, to win its fourth straight in this international series...
...eleven wins for the Harvard-Yale squad were by Harvard athletes, including two by Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace. Vanderpool-Wallace captured both the long and triple jumps (which were held inside because of the weather) and set a new Harvard indoor record for the triple with a 49 ft. 2 1/2 in. leap...
THAT HAS there been about the character of this far-off struggle that has changed the lives of many of us? The professional sophists claim students opposed the war because they feared the draft. This analysis is a cousin of the explanation that hot weather caused ghetto rebellions. No revealing correlation between draft status and the intensity of antiwar militance has ever been proferred, and the skeptics will have to search deeper for a reasonable explanation...
Students awaken at 6 a.m. and do their laundry and personal chores before sitting down to a breakfast of steamed bread, porridge and tea. Depending on weather and seasonal conditions, their days are about evenly divided between study sessions, field work and paramilitary drills. After supper there are group activities such as singing, dancing and cultural programs. Lights are out at 10 p.m. Men and women live separately. Asked if sex was ever a problem, one cadre laughed and said: "I haven't heard of such a thing...