Word: knowingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...women with great minds are free to train other men and women with potentially great minds. And when your professor in a class of 200 calls out your name and asks if you really understand what's going on, and you nod and mutter something inconsequential, you'll know why you stayed up the night before to write his paper...
...noxious gas that will spread over the plains of Yemen and kill 25 or 30,000 people. And though you can't see them--they hide on Huntington Avenue at the Med School or behind the great rhinoceri that guard the Bio Labs--they are doing it. And we know they are because they did it in Vietnam, when they told the President that the war could be won and then suggested that he use napalm to do it. Two Harvard men, one of them who may teach you about democracy and one of whom wants to be Secretary...
...there is much more going on outside the gates of the Yard that most students will never know about. Sequestered in an office in downtown Boston sit Harvard's treasurers, the men who handle the University's $1.4 billion dollar endowment--the largest in the country--and have decided to concentrate investments in oil, defense and the like. Things are better now; they weren't even watched back in 1972, when a group of angry students stormed Massachusetts Hall to protest the University's holdings in Gulf Oil which was operating in Angola, where racial tensions were running high...
Aside from tubercular pleas--"Please don't put me with a smoker"--students are rarely idiosyncratic. A few know whom they want to room with, some request a new or old building, but most are not familiar enough with the Yard to ask for a particular dorm. Race is rarely a problem either. While the senior advisers can hardly be color-blind--you put a photograph on the rooming application, remember? --they only occasionally consider race as a determining factor. They never get demands to keep any particular race out of a room, though a Black applicant who hopes...
...duffle bags, and that's why I got here at 6:30 a.m." The roommate will probably swallow your story, the week being young. Then again, you might want to bargain--offer your roommate the single for the first semester, in return for the single second semester. You know what they say about springtime...