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Freshman coach Dana Getchell substituted freely, but could not avert the lopsided final score. "You don't get too much out of a game like this. We need to have a good test of our ability. I would have liked to have had it today, but we will get one for sure next week." he said. The Yardlings play Exeter at Exeter on Wednesday and host Dartmouth on Friday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JV, Yardling Soccer Squads Roll To Easy Victories Over Weekend | 10/21/1969 | See Source »

...bows to the opposition and becomes the administrator of policies which he does not really support, his service as Dean is bound to become increasingly frustrating. The only solution is for Dean and Faculty to join in a patient and unremitting search for common ground and the accommodations which avert internal cleavages and mitigate differences between the Faculty and the Administration. It remains our conviction that in the course of this search the Dean's first obligation is to represent his Faculty to the President and the Governing Boards and to report their views to the Faculty...

Author: By T. S. Eliot, | Title: The Fainsod Report | 10/20/1969 | See Source »

...conversation with him. All that is known about the students, as the result of previous psychological testing, is that one is more dominant a personality than the other. Abruptly, the screen is lifted, and the students confront each other across the table. Will the dominant or the submissive one avert his eyes first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communication: What's in a Glance? | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

They charged that they had not been adequately consulted in the formulation of the proposed degree program, and demanded that the Faculty reverse the decision of the Standing Committee, and name a group of black students to the Committee to avert further misunderstandings. The Faculty approved both steps at its April 22 meeting, and Rosovsky resigned the following...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students on Afro Dept. Committee Poor Precedent, Writes Rosovsky | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

...S.S.R. Friendship Association and has been awarded the Order of Lenin and the Stalin Peace Prize, he is not expected to tamper with Hanoi's delicate relations with the Soviet Union and China. For that matter, he will probably be allowed to tamper with very little. To avert a bruising struggle for the succession, the contenders have quite deliberately removed the presidency from the arena. Until North Viet Nam's power vacuum is filled, "Uncle Ton," as Thang is sometimes called, is expected to do little more than urge unity and praise the late Uncle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Viet Nam: The Thang-Bang Team | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

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