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Nevertheless, the construction of undergraduate Houses in Allston would create an influx of temporary residents—a population many in the community want to avoid...
...former juror McDowell says that the jury was careful to avoid biases based on educational or socioeconomic background...
...this vernacular habit? Benjamin Franklin called it “modest diffidence,” advising orators to avoid “the words certainly, undoubtedly, or any others that give the air of positiveness to an opinion; but rather say, I conceive or apprehend a thing to be so and so; it appears to me, or I should think it so or so, for such and such reasons; or I imagine it to be so; or it is so, if I am not mistaken.” A spoonful of humility, Franklin argued, helps the assertion go down...
...It’s been a policy developed by individual Houses,” Associate Dean of the College Thomas A. Dingman ’67 says of the rules. “When Houses are aware that there are important dates, they try to avoid those in order to see that our students feel supported...
Despite going undefeated in the league, the Crimson was not able to secure a top-16 seed in the tournament—a placement that would have helped it avoid Stanford—because of some critical non-league losses earlier in the year...