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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first football game between Harvard and Yale took place when Ulysses S. Grant was president of the United States, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was a five-year old pre-schooler and the Science Center probably referred to a collection of Bunsen burners somewhere in the basement of Sever Hall. The 1875 competition--which was in reality more a rugby match than anything else--was actually not the beginning of the Harvard-Yale rivalry. That had begun more than two decades earlier with crew. No helmets or equipment were worn--the teams wore hats, knickers and britches for uniforms. The game...

Author: By Aaron R. Cohen, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Harvard-Yale Football: Who Cares | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

Scattered throughout the list of questions that beg for help on course homework are a string of laments and a war of words among students and teaching fellows (TFs) which has more flame than a Bunsen burner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Course Web Talk Unexpected | 11/8/1996 | See Source »

Although there aren't exactly Bunsen burners and graduated cylinders roaming the halls of our nation's Capitol, chemical processes help to explain the dynamics of American politics...

Author: By Benjamin R. Kaplan, | Title: The Chemistry of Politics | 10/30/1995 | See Source »

Hunched over bunsen burners, wrapped in starchywhite lab coats and stooped in rigorous equations,scientists say they need an occasional laugh--atthemselves and at each other--to preserve theirsanity...

Author: By Carrie L. Zinaman, | Title: Scientists' Humor Defies Stereotypical Serious Image | 4/20/1994 | See Source »

...painful detail, Kozol describes such inner-city schools as Morris High in the South Bronx, where water cascades down the stairways when it rains, and Chicago's Du Sable High, where the chemistry teacher uses a popcorn popper as a Bunsen burner. Kozol juxtaposes these images with descriptions of the luxurious facilities in nearby wealthy suburbs like Winnetka, north of Chicago. Its New Trier High has, among other things, seven gyms, rooms for fencing, wrestling and dance instruction, and an Olympic-size pool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do The Poor Deserve Bad Schools? | 10/14/1991 | See Source »

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