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Against Bentley College's varsity "B" team The Classics hit over 60 per cent of their shots and avenged an earlier loss by the Crimson varsity to Bentley's first-stringers. Bob Bengel landed 12 of 13 outside shots to pace the hoopsters to a 106-75 victory...

Author: By Bill Ginsberg, | Title: Classics Pass Century Mark; Hoopsters Notch 100th Victory | 3/23/1978 | See Source »

...addressing these needs, we should look initially to the first two years of college. Freshmen and sophomores have too few opportunities for engaging in active intellectual work under direct faculty supervision. We provide enough freshman seminars to accommodate only 35 per cent of the class, although students have considered an expansion of these seminars to be one of the most important changes to be made in undergraduate education...

Author: By Derek C. Bok, | Title: Bok on the Core | 3/21/1978 | See Source »

...constitution's weaknesses and refuse to ratify it, without caring enough to profer a viable alternative. It looked like just such an irony might become reality, when the South House delegation to the convention presented the results of a poll of 69 students that showed that 55 per cent of students favor the concept of student government, but only a paltry 15 per cent would actually vote to ratify the convention's constitution...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Convention Faces Apathy and Distrust | 3/21/1978 | See Source »

...which basic issues involved in the Bakke case now before the Supreme Court incited histrionics on both sides. The minority students found it hard to believe that there was so little support at Harvard for this basic affirmative action policy. The South House poll showed that over 70 per cent of undergraduates opposed the idea of giving the minority groups special representation and were therefore opposed to the constitution in its present form. The convention delegates, similarly, abhorred the thought of tainting the "divine" institution of one-man-one-vote and were amazed that the minority students were so eager...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Convention Faces Apathy and Distrust | 3/21/1978 | See Source »

...Marines, Paulovich says he slept on a board the night before his physical and stood on his tip-toes at the weigh-in. "Sarge" (his nickname from day one of sophomore year when he returned to Cambridge sporting a Frank Freidel crew-cut) finished in the top 5 per cent of his Marine class and plans to take a commission following graduation from Harvard next year...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: His Heart's Not Short | 3/21/1978 | See Source »

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