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...Crimson's 3-2 loss to Union on the road two weekends ago was a perfect example of Harvard's trouble with physical play. The Skating Dutchmen executed their game plan flawlessly by taking away Harvard's ability to play an open-ice game and forcing the Crimson to adopt a dump-and-chase style to compensate...
That being said, most of us recognize that the Quadlings got a raw deal. In general, we welcome you all; the principle provocation of grumblings about the gong are the tables full of Lowell- and Quincy-ites with nary an Adamsian in their midst. We were happy to adopt the PfoHo-ers last year, and I daresay we'd do it again if you asked nicely and/or kicked our butts in football again. Perhaps we should resurrect a suggestion made last year that Adams adopt PfoHo, Lowell adopt Cabot and Quincy adopt Currier, or some arrangement like that...
...Appropriately, the story begins in California. In the two decades after World War II, the College Board struggled to build the reputation of the SAT, which was first used experimentally in 1926. The board desperately wanted the University of California, then the biggest university in the nation, to fully adopt the test. In 1962, as Nicholas Lemann says in his brilliant history, The Big Test, an SAT honcho wrote to his colleagues of the dire consequences if U.C. decided to end its then limited use of the test: "If they drop the SAT, we will lose a great deal more...
Radcliffe should adopt these suggestions and streamline its operations by eliminating extraneous programs that are not encompassed within its mission. These unrelated educational programs currently offered by Radcliffe should be moved to other schools so that they are not lost to the University, but they should be evicted from their present place at the Institute. For instance, Radcliffe's programs in landscape design and landscape design history, though valuable, are not pertinent to women, gender and society and would do better finding a home elsewhere...
Those of us who work in hospitals rarely see people who don't smoke, don't drink or aren't overweight, or people who exercise and wear seat belts. Those who adopt a good lifestyle soon find that it can be a fun adventure and that energetic, sexy bodies are not that far away. RUSS H. CARTER Pittsburgh...