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...they may well win the Ivy League title. Yale's passing game may not be awesome, however, and the Yale crowd applauded when quarterback Chuck Sizemore threw his first pass against U Conn late in the second quarter. He ended up 5 for 11, a statistic that is not apt to strike fear in the hearts of opposing defensive backs...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: Crimson Ivy League Football Preview | 10/1/1971 | See Source »

...kids get handed cards, and the cards say, "Miss Ames, Room 201, is your teacher," and with that their fates are set. Teacher is either hard or she's easy; pretty, and nice; or she's too strict, in which case a kid consoles himself with finding her an apt nickname, like Old Hickorystickbitch or The Bosom Lady. In any case, kids have to take what they...

Author: By Christopher Ma, | Title: Back to School | 9/30/1971 | See Source »

...England, but it is a cautious improvement over the days when Jews were untouchable and Joseph Kennedy Jr. became the first Catholic ever to make a club. It is unlikely that Harvard blacks will fall over each other trying to join a club, so the percentages are not apt to change...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: The Clubs: Pale, But Still Breathing | 9/20/1971 | See Source »

Confidence operators and petty thieves traditionally prey on dormitory dwellers. The fall's bumper-crop of returning students is a god-send to rip-off artists. The situation is most dangerous in freshman dorms, where residents are apt to leave their doors open as they journey to communal bathrooms...

Author: By William S. Beckett, | Title: The Latest Trend at Harvard: Crime | 9/20/1971 | See Source »

...scrub brush would grow. "We honestly don't know what is going to happen if the forest is cut down," admits the agrarian-reform program's Jorge Pankov. "But when your belly is so empty that you have to steal to fill it, you're less apt to worry about altering virgin environment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Transamazonia: The Last Frontier | 9/13/1971 | See Source »

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