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Freshman week things were fine, but then--the moment of truth arrived. Registration, when the University inaugurated birthdates on bursar's cards. And with it the alcohol policy that accepts only bursar's cards as positive i.d. at any campus party in a public space...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: From 18 to 21 In Six Easy Steps | 10/9/1987 | See Source »

This year in an attempt to cut back on illegal drinking, the College has included students' birth dates on their bursar's cards. Students will be required to use their cards for positive identification at all campus parties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Record Numbers Run for Council | 10/8/1987 | See Source »

...watchful eye of the 33-year-old Henry Dunster. Dunster proved to be a critical figure in the brief history of the governing boards. In 1650, the youthful president won a royal Charter from King Charles II that formally instituted a Corporation, comprised of a president, treasurer or bursar, and five fellows of the University whose orders were subject to "allowance" by the overseers. The seven remain the technical owners of Harvard. Hence the enigmatic "Copyright by the President and Fellows of Harvard College" that appears on virtually everything from course catalogs to a recent VES documentary called "Scruffy...

Author: By Mark M. Colodny, | Title: An Evolving Partnership | 6/11/1987 | See Source »

...group crosses Quincy St. and stands in front of the Freshmen Union. "And this is where freshmen eat," Crimson Key's finest continues, "assuming they show the checker their bursar's card. And upstairs is the Expository Writing--'Expos'--office. That building over there is the center for Hist and Lit concentrators, and that one...." She drones...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: College Colloquialism | 4/23/1987 | See Source »

...What are you going to major in," Joe Pre-Frosh will be asked this summer. "We don't major, we concentrate," he'll reply kindly. "This special writing major, uh, concentration, they, uh, we have, ex-pos, sounds good, although I think you have to fill out a bursar's card...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: College Colloquialism | 4/23/1987 | See Source »

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