Word: semis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard Summer School is a throwback to an earlier era. Prior to World War II, undergraduate admissions requirements had not yet reached the intensely competitive level it took on during Harvard's post-war democratization and transformation into a semi-meritocracy...
...hole and still come away with the $45,000 prize for first place. His drive skipped through the bend in the fairway leading uphill to the 18th green and into the rough. He slapped his second shot into a steeply escaped bunker in front of the green and a semi-explosion shot left him 40 feet from the pin. Green bladed his second putt into the center of the cup to avoid a playoff and in so doing moved into the pantheon of golf's immortals...
...matters stand now, the department lacks a single full-time tenured faculty member who is wholly within Afro. Ewart Guinier '33, professor of Afro-American Studies, is presently semi-retired and teaches only during one semester of each academic year. Southern holds tenure in the Music Department as well as Afro; she is a musicologist by training, and she was nominated by the Music Department for a joint appointment in Afro. The April 22, 1969, Faculty vote that established the department called for the tenuring of two full-time faculty members in Afro. The 1972 McCree Report on the department...
...White House aides, Jordan and Powell fall somewhere between policymakers and breakers like Clark Clifford and Ted Sorensen, and mere doorkeepers like Kenneth O'Donnell and Marvin Watson. Even in this semi-exalted position, however, hubris remains a problem for the pair: they have gained so much power so soon. It could turn the heads of people twice their age. Another problem is that in the process of growing up politically at the White House, Jordan and Powell are bound to make mistakes-and at a high level...
...change has not affected the number he draws to movies. "People go to see the movies they want to see," he said. "It won't matter if the price goes to $1.50, and I think that gradually all the other film societies will raise their prices too." Brown uses semi-professional analysis to figure out what kind of audience each movie will draw, checking attendance figures for the last time it ran in the Cambridge area and judging the competition on the weekend he plans to run it. Still, things have backfired, and he's taken some big losses...