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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were apparently born out of the same cloud of interstellar dust and gas that created the sun and the planets some 4.6 billion years ago, and have remained largely unchanged since. Occasionally, the tug of a nearby star pulls a comet into a far more elongated orbit, bringing it closer to the sun and making it visible from earth. Thus, as Kohoutek approaches, astronomers will have a rare opportunity to learn more about the primordial stuff out of which the solar system was created...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tale of the Comet | 11/5/1973 | See Source »

...wasn't immediately clear how successful they had been. Stephen B. Farber '63, special assistant to President Bok, said the Corporation's subcommittee on shareholder responsibility had moved closer to the position of the student-faculty-alumni Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility on at least one issue--having companies send information activist shareholders force them to disclose to all shareholders, not just those who asked...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: The ACSR Starts Rolling | 11/3/1973 | See Source »

Ironically, it is in this way that he may well be closer to the ideology of the independents. They claim the "openness" prescribed by the reformers is insignificant. Davin would probably agree. In essence, most of the reformers are content to apply superficial structural innovations throughout education and the political process. And it is in this sense they are not reformers at all, but parrots of the same old system trying to palm off the same old ideology merely by renaming the structure...

Author: By Robin Freedberg, | Title: School Reforms in Need of Reforming | 11/2/1973 | See Source »

...psyche in search of the answer. But in focusing on the student, they often bypass obvious features of the university itself, and the university's relationship to its environs. Any explanation for why Harvard students never affected local elections as their peers at Berkeley once did, mandates a closer look at the universities themselves and their relationships with the local communities...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: Student Vote Lacks Punch | 11/2/1973 | See Source »

Harvard looked particularly unimpressive against Dartmouth. The score was a lot closer than the game. Even though the Crimson had more total yards than the Big Green Harvard lacked the ability to gain the yards that counted...

Author: By Kim G. Davis, | Title: Upsets Scramble League Title Picture | 10/30/1973 | See Source »

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