Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tough to top. Much of its appeal lies in the wonderment with which the British team views the way the U.S. governs itself and elects its officials. The U.S., "once the fastest-moving nation in the world," in 1968 was "like a champion sprinter trying to do the hundred-yard dash with a ball and chain around his ankle." They likened the failings of President Johnson to those of Harold Wilson. "Both had an almost messianic sense of their own importance. Both understood politics better than they understood principles, and both understood principles better than they understood people...
Harvard Coach Bill McCurdy went out on a limb to predict new records in the 60-yard dash, the 60-yard hurdles, and the 440--all new events in the GBC meet. Boston College runners are slight favorites in the hurdles and dash, but Harvard sophomore Walt Johnson may return to prominence in the hurdles. Chris Alvord and John Schneider could provide a challenge in the dash. Steve Wimberly will lead the Crimson contingent in the quarter-mile...
Parietal sign-in sheets in the Yard were abolished Feb. 5 when F. Skiddy von Stade Jr. '38, dean of freshmen, called a meeting of the freshman proctors. He said that his resolution to remove sign-in sheets met no opposition from the proctors...
...challenge integration as an appropriate goal for a national university such as Harvard, and only a few are presently urging a more separatist structure, such as a dormitory solely for blacks. Several black freshman have expressed a desire for "an elective all black floor" in one of the Yard dormitories, and other students have recommended that Harvard investigate "the feasibility of a co-educational co-operative dorm" for black students, also elective...
...barriers of racial discrimination, are chronically unemployed or underemployed. With in walking distance of Harvard are public facilities -- schools, hospitals, and recreation areas--that are dilapidated, undermanned, and poorly equipped. Congestion and ugliness are not hard to find--they lie a dozen steps from the entrance to the Yard or to the Medical School...