Word: weren
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were told that six or seven collegenewspapers were going to be involved, and itturned out that most of them had ceased publishing[for the school year]. Less than two weeks beforethe event was to take place, the posters weren'teven ready yet," Hinkel said...
...weren't breaking any rules. Anything is a violation of the RRR [the Resolution on Rights and Responsiblities] if Harvard wants to make it that way," asserted Jaron R. Bourke '88, one of the blockaders. The resolution, passed by the Faculty during the height of the anti-war protests in 1970, is designed to protect personal liberties like freedom of speech and movement...
...those West Coast titans weren't clashing in their home state--they were tossing yellow balls around Harvard's very own Blodgett Pool...
...instructors who brought their classes to meet on the Yard's less-than-lush grass weren't hoping April sunshine would rekindle interest in Tocqueville or Melville that had melted away with the March frost. Instead, they moved their classes to support the goals of the Yard's shantytown-protest against Harvard's South Africa-related investments. But faculty members and students charged the practice coerced students to support the protest...
When Johnson arrived in 1978, he says, the school was still regarded "as a second-tier institution, with no cohesiveness and notable for its can't-haves. We weren't allowed a law school or a program for doctorates." GM now has both. And Johnson vows there will be more where all this uplift has come from. "We will reach the level of Carnegie-Mellon in eight years," he says. "We will soon be a national university...