Word: wente
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...girl is sitting and chatting with a group of blockmates after finishing dinner, describing the results of her date last Saturday night with the cute junior in her History of Art and Architecture section. She thought things went well, she says, but after calling him a few days later, she has yet to hear back from him. She rises for a last minute frozen yogurt run and, alas, runs into...
Because they were so famously gutsy, the FM executive board of 1992 have a lot of wild memories. Phil Rubin, then magazine co-editor, remembers the time he went to a chintzy hotel lounge in Dedham for a singles' mixer party. He and his companion were hunting down material for that week's Scrutiny. He recalls, "After partying with the singles, then we returned, marching through the snow. We came back to The Crimson and wrote it the same night. Drunk...
...certain directions. The Faculty was so impressed that they gave the 20-year-old a lab of his own for the project. Wall Street paid attention, too; soon everything from cameras to car headlights, sunglasses to red-and-blue 3D movie glasses used Land's polarizers. The young inventor went on to found Polaroid, which quickly expanded into the instant film business, and then into the instant film camera business, and so on. Along the way, Land made a whole lot of money and gave a whole lot of it back to science departments at various institutions. He paid Harvard...
...activities fee from $20 to $40 thereby doubling the budget of the Undergraduate Council. Three years ago, as a council member myself, I spent several weeks drafting and presenting a proposal calling for a referendum to double the term bill fee. But in retrospect, I am glad my idea went nowhere; then as now, the council simply did not deserve the raise...
...went the progressives and in came the pragmatists, who tried making the council relevant again by working on small issues that directly affected people: Fly-By lunches, cable television and, of course, funding student groups. The latest council administration is ostensibly trying to move back to bigger issues, but the greatest emphasis still seems to be on student groups. Planning big events and dealing with big "political" issues have rhetorically and practically taken the back seat...