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More than 40 per cent of the freshman class has not attempted the computer programming test for the Quantitative Reasoning Requirement (QRR) and will face unspecified action from the Freshman Dean's Office if they fail to take the test before winter vacation, QRR officials said yesterday...

Author: By Gilbert Fuchsberg, | Title: 675 Freshmen Yet to Try Test As Computer Deadline Nears | 12/2/1981 | See Source »

Dealing with new playwrights is in any case, a messy, time-consuming, demoralizing business. Ninety per cent of them have no reason for writing a play beyond being stage-struck; and most manuscripts are either plodding, sentimental TV problem plays, or blank-verse behemoths that would make Milton blanch. The latter are occasionally built on legitimate dramatic impulses, but the authors have no theatre sense, no conception of how to hold the stage, and they smother their ideas with embarrassing language and elephantine pretensions. Many of these playwrights have nobly sacrificed law school, television or movies for Art: they trumpet...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Cowardly Trilogy | 12/2/1981 | See Source »

...appointed the committee in response to recommendations from Loeb University Professor Archibald Cox, whom Bok appointed in July to evaluate Botanic Gardens tenants' complaints about 21- to 51-per-cent rent increases...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: Some Harvard Rent Rates Will Not Rise Until 1982 | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

Lack of size hurt Harvard on offense--the hoopsters could not get inside. Forced to shoot from the outside, the Crimson produced a paltry 36-per-cent field goal average. Only Frenesa Hall appeared comfortable taking long shots, and she was not playing at her best (12 points all weeked...

Author: By Jon Losos, | Title: Women Hoopsters Drop Two, Place Last in Home Tourney | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

Harvard also had difficulty keeping the opposition's big forwards out from under the basket. Rice scored a large majority of its points from within five feet, while Northwestern's 59-per-cent field goal average reflected not sharp shooting, but a breakdown of the Crimson defense under the basket...

Author: By Jon Losos, | Title: Women Hoopsters Drop Two, Place Last in Home Tourney | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

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