Word: springly
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Faculty legislation mandates that the Core undergo an extensive review in spring 1982. What that review turns up is anybody's guess, but for now, after one year of witnessing the Core in action, Rosovsky says he is encouraged, especially by the large number of courses developed specifically for the Core--about 70 per cent of those offered. He calls the program "the greatest injection of new courses in Harvard's history...
...rhythm of Commencement in the spring of 1970 was broken by the appearance of a group of community activists seeking to disrupt the normally staid proceedings, to draw attention to Harvard's expansion in the Riverside area of Cambridge. Led by Saundra Graham--later elected a city councilor--the "counter-commencement" group was allowed to speak its piece after last minute behind-the-scene bargaining...
Once the adversary of students opposed to Harvard's investments in firms doing business in South Africa, the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR), the Corporation's research body, did an about face this past spring and voted to support several progressive, though moderate resolutions...
Many supporters of the crown found it prudent to flee to Boston where they could remain safe behind royal lines, and Cambridge became the boundary with the British Empire. That boundary was reinforced in the spring 1775, when, after starting the Revolutionary War in Lexington and Concord, British soldiers retreated into Boston. Behind them, Minutemen closed off the peninsula, camping 16,000 strong on Cambridge Common for months. When the soldiers needed barracks, Harvard agreeably moved to Concord for about a year. When the soldiers needed baths, they took them in the Charles River, often Sutton notes, "with disregard...
...Radcliffe heavyweight crew displayed awesome raw power this spring in thundering to impressive victories over MIT, Dartmouth, BU, NU, Princeton, Cornell and Yale. But at the Eastern Sprints championships on Connecticut's Lake Waramug, the heavies' comeback effort fell just short and they wound up second a fraction of a second behind an upstart Penn boat...