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While the Bruins (3-1 Ivies, 4-2 overall) have only Dartmouth and Columbia (a combined 0-7 in the Ivies) remaining on their league slate, the Crimson still must contend with five-time defending Ivy champ Penn and always unpredictable Yale...
Harvard will have to contend with Brown All-America candidate Walt Cataldo, a defensive back, and senior linebacker Tyler Wolfram, who has registered an amazing 75 tackles on the year. (Linebacker Richard Mau leads Harvard with...
...contend that "quite simply, council members too often are swayed by administrators." Yet, last year when the council was fighting to give students input into the tenure process, it was The Crimson that was swayed by the administration. In your editorial of March 19, 1987, The Crimson argued that "no one should have been disappointed last week when the dean of the Faculty questioned the practicality of an Undergraduate Council plan to give students a formal role in tenure deliberations...
...School is divided, confused, and just plain unsure of what constitutes good scholarship and qualifies a faculty member for tenure. Opponents of Clare Dalton, whose tenure bid was rejected recently, argue that her scholarship is wanting. Her supporters contend that her work is first rate and that her opponents lack objectivity and allow their biases to influence their votes...
Like many of their competitors in the computer industry, Robin and Tom Bennett sometimes work 18 hours a day. But when the 30-year-old founders of Polar Engineering, a custom software firm, step outside the office, they do not have to contend with jostling lunch crowds or bumper-to-bumper commutes. Instead, the married couple can take quiet strolls through 25 acres of birch and spruce forest. Reason: their office is in their three-bedroom, 3,500-sq.- ft. home on Alaska's remote Kenai peninsula. The nearest neighbor lives half a mile away, and now and then...