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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Note: Games against Western Collegiate Hockey Association teams count in the Hockey East standings...
...taking a course in an entirely novel field. The College must determine a way to give experimenters room to screw up in a course without ruining their chances for honors--perhaps, as Professor of Astrophysics David I ayzer suggests, by making only three-fourths of all courses count for honors...
...coroner on a tour of fatal scenes...The sergeant...began a search of the dead man's pockets, looking for means to identify him. He found nothing whatever of that sort, but from a pants pocket he drew out a fat wad of bills, and a hasty count showed that it contained $416. A situation worthy of Scribe or even Victor Hugo!...The sergeant looked at the coroner, the coroner looked at me, and I looked at the sergeant. Then the sergeant wrapped up the money in a piece of newspaper lying nearby, and handed it to the coroner...
That heady up and down movement creates headaches, Morrell says, because the trustees count on spending a certain percentage of the total endowment each year--lately 7 percent. If the account grows by more than that figure, Radcliffe is safe. But if the endowment grows less than 7 percent or even falls--as it did during the most recent year--the college must eat into the principal of the account...
Indians at college are not totally accepted in either world, and are stuck in a limbo, says Tsosie. To break away from stereotypes is a tough job, they say, and, for that reason, can count only on their own strengths...