Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Portuguese colonial regime in Angola beat back the growing threat of the black guerilla movement. After eight months of ineffectual protests and calls for Harvard's divestiture of stock in the company, a small group of black students occupied Mass Hall, supporters demonstrated for several days in the Yard and students called a general University strike. The Corporation refused to give in to the pressure, and the Mass Hall occupiers left peacefully after six days. After the sit-in, Bok sent one of his assistants, Stephen B. Farber '63, to Angola to investigate the situation first-hand. Today Harvard still...
Meanwhile, the United Front is sponsoring a march from Radcliffe to the Yard, and a general boycott of afternoon classes so all students can participate in a mass demonstration during today's Corporation meeting. What effect they will have remains to be seen--despite the chain of advising from the IRRC to the ACSR to the Corporate subcommittees, despite student protest and petitions, despite ACSR and Corporation open hearings, despite the southern Africa Solidarity Committee and the United Front, once again the actual decision comes down to the Harvard Corporation, as it always has, and probably always will. Legally, that...
With spring the Yard turns green again, we look for summer jobs again, and J. Wyatt Emmerich scribbles about sociobiology again. This year he claims Professor DeVore is out of his league, but perhaps it is Emmerich who is guilty of this...
...case, East Anglia's murky, misty fen country) and contemporary mores (some pretty kinky), her familiarity with forensic science (which is what Expert's plot is mostly about) and keen psychological insight, all mark her as an original. Her seventh and best mystery novel brings back Scotland Yard's Adam Dalgliesh, who writes offbeat poetry...
Doherty, arriving late from a fellowship interview, stripped down to his uniform quickly and charged onto the field amidst vociferous chants of "Beast!" from the Harvard stands. Just second later, the senior sharpshooter let rip a 12-yard shot that sailed past Brown goalie Charlie Meister, and the Bruins were psyched out of their skulls...