Word: performance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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About March, CRIMSON readers puzzled over classified ads blaring: "Wanted: 100 pounds of raw meat and a cage. Contact: Jubilee Committee." This, of course, was a prelude to the surprise announcement that The Animals had been hired to perform for the freshmen. What is particularly amazing is that this group was chosen before it had reached the apex of its stardom and therefore before it became financially unfeasible. Saturday night, Jubilarians enjoyed a floating party, complete with band and liquid mixer, aboard a huge pleasure cruiser. Few participants remembers, or care, that for a full hour the boat never left...
...masters unless he is economically "rational". This means that he must be willing to work solely for money or for some other reward that can be controlled by his employers, and will not seriously insist that his work be meaningful or personally rewarding and enjoyable if he is to perform...
Surely but slowly, scientists are learning the structure of the basic molecules of life. They are gradually discovering how those molecules perform their exquisitely delicate and extraordinarily precise functions in all animals, from the amoeba to man. Despite their submicroscopic size, biologically active molecules are huge and complex-in atomic terms. Each one contains hundreds of thousands of atoms, arranged in submolecular groups-"building blocks" that are in turn arranged in definite numbers and patterns. Finding out how the building blocks are assembled in the major molecules has proved to be a challenging and time-consuming task...
...lunches will be provided and members of The Proposition will perform. After lunch, the symposium will be divided into ten discussion groups and each group will meet with representatives from SDS, PBH, Afro, and the Teaching Fellows...
...Center will provide an additional 232 beds to the hospital complex around the Med School. But more importantly it will join the three hospitals in the area: Peter Bent Brigham, Robert B. Brigham, and Boston Hospital for Women. The union of these hospitals will make it possible to perform complicated and expensive operations such as open heart surgery...