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Dates: during 1960-1969
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INTO THIS medical morass, the Harvard Medical School has stepped. Harvard's role as a healthy spawning ground for medical talent as well known. But the Med School's attempt to soothe the medical crisis has now involved it in a task more typical of the Business School. Led by Robert Ebert, dean of the school, and Jerome Pollack, an experienced medical administrator from New York, the Med School planners are working on a scheme that may offer American medicine a way out of its current welter of ills...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: American Medicine Heading for Collapse. . . | 3/17/1969 | See Source »

...said bitterly. "Just look at our membership--last year it was seven hundred, this year it's two hundred fifty." The exec board had not met since November, and the YD's had gone all semester without a speakers program. The incumbent president promised reforms, made a half-hearted attempt at re-election, and finally withdrew, saying the YD's weren't worth saving...

Author: By Thomas Geoghegan, | Title: Revival Politics | 3/15/1969 | See Source »

Harvard's relay team can attempt a qualifying time when coach Bill Brooks brings his team back to the IAB, but it will be more difficult without the fine competition to push the Crimson team...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Swimmers Remain Sixth; Munk Nets Fourth Place | 3/15/1969 | See Source »

...base in a community without a theatre. Samshak hoped that he and the community could help one another, but both of them needed something more than the other could provide. The South End's cultural base could not subsidize the Atma as a suburban community might have, and any attempt at local season ticket sales proved impossible. In addition, the Atma immediately encountered the community's inherent hostility to outside intrusion...

Author: By Stephen D. Mikesell, | Title: The Atma Cries 'Alarum' | 3/15/1969 | See Source »

Although Blocker's performance was difficult to match, Leigh Woods as Saul and Frazer Lively as the witch came close. Miss Lively's witch was an imaginative if not completely successful attempt to break away from the stereotype of withered, cackling, old crones. Gaunt she is, but she displays a sensuality when she strokes Saul's cheek that casts doubt upon the depths to which she has plumbed arcane science...

Author: By Jerald R. Gerst, | Title: Endor & Krapp's Last Tape | 3/14/1969 | See Source »

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