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Exhibit number two: Radcliffe College. It's undoubtedly sad, from a symbolic point of few, that this once-bastion of female education is getting the axe. But Radcliffe has been effectively absent from undergraduate life since co-education began over 20 years ago. The nostalgia that today's undergraduates feel for Radcliffe is, once again, nostalgia for an institution that never existed in our living memory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Imagining the Past | 4/30/1999 | See Source »

...biology is not offered. The best departments for majors are English, art history, history, economics, and biology. Weaker departments include romance languages and anthropology. Smaller departments--like philosophy and religion--offer more personal attention because of their size. For an externally competitive school, cutthroat behavior between students is surprisingly absent; personal goals are more the focus. There is a sense that everyone's grades are stellar, but GPAs are rarely discussed explicitly...

Author: By Christine E. Fletcher, FEATURES EDITOR OF THE WILLIAMS RECORD | Title: Beautiful Boonies | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

...biology is not offered. The best departments for majors are English, art history, history, economics, and biology. Weaker departments include romance languages and anthropology. Smaller departments - like philosophy and religion - offer more personal attention because of their size. For an externally competitive school, cutthroat behavior between students is surprisingly absent; personal goals are more the focus. There is a sense that everyone's grades are stellar, but GPAs are rarely discussed explicitly...

Author: By Christine E. Fletcher, FEATURES EDITOR OF THE WILLIAMS RECORD | Title: Beautiful Boonies: Williams College | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

Whether one likes it or not, military service remains in this country a major conduit to power. For a great university to absent itself from injecting into the mix its own ideas and values is a gross neglect of duty and is a disservice to the nation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Hypocrisy on ROTC | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

Whether one likes it or not, military service remains in this country a major conduit to power. For a great university to absent itself from injecting into the mix its own ideas and values is a gross neglect of duty and is a disservice to the nation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

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