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Brown has the League's leading receiver is catches, yards, and touch-downs in Chip Regine. Restic said that he will assign double coverage to Regine...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: Football Team Faces Underdog Brown; Bruin Passing Game May Test Defense | 11/18/1972 | See Source »

...Nightmare. Langham is performing an act of reviving violence. He is doing to the polite 19th century conventions of Greek tragedy what directors like Peter Brook have done to the polite 19th century conventions of Shakespeare. Pseudo-traditional versions of Oedipus are staged as refined pageants. Directors assign masks, write long program notes about catharsis, and advise their puzzled Oedipuses to express hubris, which generally leaves them looking like damaged Roman coins. Langham has cut through the decorum of Greek revival to present Oedipus as a nightmare by Jung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Bleeding Life | 11/13/1972 | See Source »

...want to find out how they assign freshmen to their colleges--similar to Harvard Houses--and how they handle the problem of the male-female ratio," Harnett said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Investigative Team to Study Yale Housing And Assess Value of Freshman Affiliations | 11/8/1972 | See Source »

...downs since its founding in the early sixties. Last year's attempt to assign volunteers to offer special activities in schools throughout the Boston system failed miserably. Completely uncooperative officials, a lack of communication among committee members, and generally lax volunteer commitment precipitated BEP's dermis. Fortunately, its leadership re-formed the group this year as the Cambridge Education Program (CEP), tying volunteers PBH Membership Figures listed give fetal PBM membership including New Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates. Members in parentheses indicate the percentage of PBH membership in each of the categories. YEAR FRESH SOPH JRS SRS OTHER...

Author: By Peter M. Shane, | Title: PBH: A Tradition of Change | 11/7/1972 | See Source »

...label people, and only secondarily as socialization agencies, whose job is to change people." The reason, he says, is that schools cannot control the factors that most determine test scores: heredity and home environment. Jencks believes that genes play a significant role in determining IQ, though he does not assign to them the overwhelming importance found by Berkeley Psychologist Arthur Jensen. Just how do genes influence the IQ? Only partly by predetermining the ability to learn, says Jencks. Genes also affect the environment in which a child develops, a factor ignored by traditional methods of estimating genetic influences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: What Schools Cannot Do | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

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