Word: flourished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just one of four boats that could not make up the difference. After rowing furiously hard through the middle 1000 meters of their race, the lights fell victim to exhaustion in the closing sprint. The Elis took an obnoxiously comfortable win while hard-charging Princeton closed with a flourish that left Harvard third...
...agree with the idea that diversity and intellectual challenge should be the hallmarks of a university, that all opinions should flourish on their merits, and that all ethnic, racial, and other groups should be tolerated. But these ideals do not justify blindness to South African racism. Furthermore, intellectual diversity does not preclude a boycott. A boycott effectively presents a viewpoint, opens up discussion, and permits the examination of divestiture on its own merits...
...confident of leaving behind an institution that can flourish without him. Last season, the orchestra's tenth, it performed before a total of 100,000 people. Besides occasional national tours and State Department-sponsored appearances abroad, it visits campuses and towns throughout the region as a sort of floating miniconservatory, offering clinics, master classes and discussion groups in addition to its concerts. In its main subscription series at St. Paul's 1,700-seat O'Shaughnessy Auditorium, the orchestra has become all but a sellout, precisely by avoiding safe subscription fare. "A concert hall doesn...
...receive only token funding compared with programs for the handicapped and disadvantaged. Illinois, for example, spends $740 per child to educate its 220,000 handicapped, but only $40 per child for its approximately 70,000 gifted students. The disparity is largely due to the notion that the gifted will flourish on their own. But increasingly that view is being challenged by cases like that of Tommy Irwin...
...Berkeley. At Harvard there are only ten Afro-American studies majors this year. Reports Eugene Matthews, a black in Harvard's class of 1980: "I was told not to take many black studies courses because law schools don't look favorably on them." Black studies programs still flourish at a few universities, where departments have been well funded, courses well taught and students willing to work...