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When about 200 students showed up for Natural Sciences 135, "Man's Impact on the Environment," it was "quite a surprise" to the instructor, James N. Butler, Mckay Professor Applied Chemistry...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: Packing Them In | 2/16/1980 | See Source »

Three meter diving: 1. Veronica Ribot (BU), 427.65; 2. Pam Stone (H), 368.05; 3. Adriana Holy (H), 364.30; 4. Catherine Butler (BU), 344.20; 5. Leslie Hutton (NU), 289.90; 6. Becky Wright...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Aquawomen Swamp Terriers, Grab First GBC Crown Ever | 2/7/1980 | See Source »

...WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS once claimed that when we argue with someone else, it's rhetoric, but when we argue with ourselves, it's poetry. Irish poet Seamus Heaney conforms to his precursor's observation. In Field Work, Heaney often challenges his decision to write, yet at the same time believes in his own artistic commitment...

Author: By James L. Cott, | Title: Ireland's Second Coming | 2/6/1980 | See Source »

...YORK--Columbia University is issuing whistles to women entering the stacks of Butler Library to combat "flashers" and sexual harassment...

Author: By Compiled FROM College newspapers, | Title: Whistle-Blowing | 2/2/1980 | See Source »

...miserable that one of his generals once mistook a letter of his for battle orders. Charles Hamilton, a Manhattan dealer in autographs and manuscripts, contends that Writer Gertrude Stein's oblique prose style may be explained by the fact that compositors often misread her cryptic script. Poet William Butler Yeats often could not read his own work. Horace Greeley, the editor of the old New York Tribune, had a notoriously illegible scrawl. He once scribbled a note to a reporter telling him he was fired for incompetence; so indecipherable was the missive that for years afterward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Nowadays, Writing Is off the Wall | 1/28/1980 | See Source »

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