Word: winterers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...however, a strange taste--limited, and in some ways, inaccurate. One of the most important components of the Harvard "winter" experience is the sense of fraternity and superiority which comes from the College's unmatched exclusiveness. Harvard College accepts 1200 students from over 7000 applicants; Radcliffe's ratio is similar. Justifiably or not, it does something to an adolescent's psyche to know he is one of this group, even though he knows the group was chosen through an elaborate, only partly meritocratic, admissions process...
...little tired of the exclusivity in the winter," Crooks says. "I like the idea that we're not so exclusive during the summer...
HOSPITALS Like many of its patients, Boston City Hospital is old, impoverished and badly in need of rehabilitation. Paint peels from sagging walls. Windows are smashed throughout the complex of 34 buildings, and the heating system is so antiquated that some wards must be shut down entirely in winter because the temperature cannot be pushed above 40°. The ill-ventilated, six-story maternity wing, where 3,500 babies are born each year, does not have a single bath or shower. Sighs Staff Physician William V. McDermott: "This is a hell of a way to run a hospital...
...campuses, despite the continued poster popularity of Marcuse's grizzled visage, has been a swing away from his thought to a fresh classroom consciousness of Marx. In West Germany, where West Berlin's Neukölln factory quarters became so hostile to anti-Viet Nam demonstrators last winter that one was badly beaten, S.D.S. activists are trying to reconstruct workers with a missionary effort. Groups of students drop in on worker pubs, strike up conversations over checker matches, and gradually set up small groups that aim to determine their common anticapitalistic grievances. However, with only 50 groups...
...that sophomore year, Grate won the starting shortstop position on the varsity baseball team and won the Wendell Bat, awarded the team's most effective offensive player. Then he ran into eligibility problems and just managed to get through the 1967 basketball season before he was sidelined. This winter, eligible again, he ran into personal problems and ill health just before the start of basketball practice and didn't break into the lineup until late in the season. Against Brown he pumped in four 25-foot jump shots to keep Harvard in the game during the first half...