Word: wide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...POTENTIAL activists who feel that clubbies don't harm the rest of the campus by partitioning themselves off, there is a second division which they should find less controversial-the wide gulf that exists between students and faculty members...
...committee has also announced plans to hold a University-wide meeting to discuss the ordinance with smokers before March 9. "We are striving to identify and solve our own problems and avoid the city's enforcement," Saltonstall said...
...protectors of the institution have offices in the Yard and hold various administrative titles. The protectors see to it that the grass stays green. They issue propaganda and raise money. They open wide Harvard's gates to tourists, visitors and prospective contributors; they close them tight to instruders, rebels and government officials. The philosophy of the protectors is an organic one: each and every member of the community assumes his or her natural, predefined task. Students take courses. Professors lecture and write books. Alumni visit for reunions and anniversaries. Protectors are to insure that nothing disrupts these traditional roles...
...fall of 1823 and various other occasions before and since, this organic society fell apart. In a rare show of unity students during these times exercised their collective force in an attempt to influence institutional affairs. In 1823, the quality of the food incited a campus-wide riot that resulted in numerous expulsions. In 1969, the presence of ROTC recruiters on campus prompted a takeover of Harvard's main administrative building and ended in a police siege. In both these cases, the issues were of sufficient concern to motivate a large group to change the minds of a reluctant administration...
...complete with full-service meat and fish departments. The outlets are attractive, but the difference is, as he puts it, "the way they're run." Each store is managed semi-independently by a single boss, who tailors the contents to neighborhood needs with little overseeing from top management. Company-wide, Byerly's has 2,100 employees, but only five work in what the proprietor jokingly calls "world headquarters" in the Minneapolis suburb of Edina...