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...understanding their racial history, Black students can resist yielding "to the temptation to be lost and becom[ing] something [they] are not," he said...

Author: By Jay K. Varma, | Title: Black Leader Addresses Students | 2/22/1990 | See Source »

Surveying row upon row of scrawny, sagging firs and spruces, Forester Hubert Eh threw up his hands in despair. "We were always so proud of these trees," said Eh. "Now the Black Forest is becom ing the Yellow Forest. It's enough to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Turning Green into Yellow | 1/9/1984 | See Source »

...enter the nationl job market without first having maximized widespread peer linkages--both friendship and strategic in nature--with as many white and non-black students as possible. In time, these transcultural peer ties can be more than merely individual benefits; as some of one's white peer becom governors, financiers, managers, legislators, etc., the peer linkages forged at Harvard become potential agencies of actions that might have great benefit to, for example, skill-training policies for unskilled and semiskilled black ghetto youths. Both public policy and private deavors related to such issues concerning average black can be influenced...

Author: By Martin L. Kilson jr., | Title: Black and White in the Ivy: The Ethnic cul-de-sac | 10/17/1978 | See Source »

Particularly encouraging was the team's performance on defense against passes and end sweeps, which in recent years have becom almost chronic Crimson weaknesses. Once thwarted in the middle of the line, Tufts sent a few feelers around the flanks but was quickly discouraged in this line of attack by the varsity's ends, who reacted outward nicely, keeping themselves between the sideline and the ball carrier...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss, | Title: Crimson Eleven Outscores Tufts in Scrimmage Here | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

...acting is steadily above the chances furnished by the lines. The two principals of the cast, C. L. Hay '08 and G. G. Bacon '08 give promise of becom ing one of the famous "teams" of the Pudding stage. Hay overworks two or three farcical expressions, but in his burlesque society drama, "Bear and Forebear," it is impossible to look upon his impersonation of the stage child without sympathy, and he throws a most attractive fit. Bacon's makeup, with its resemblance to Miss Ethel Barrymore would probably cause that lady exquisite enjoyment, and his acting still more. He imitates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H. P. C. UNDERGRADUATE NIGHT | 3/18/1907 | See Source »

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