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...move that some say could lessen social life at Wellesley College, the school last week decided to crack down on underage drinking by limiting the numbers of people who can attend society house parties, college officials said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wellesley Restricts Alcohol at Society Parties | 10/17/1987 | See Source »

...Harvard is to be considered a threat to the Ivy title, it will have to make a strong showing against both squads. Win or lose, though, Harvard will get another crack at both teams in the Ivy League Tournament, in November in New York...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Spikers Look to Bombard Lowell, Return Home For Big Showdown | 10/7/1987 | See Source »

High above Peking last week, the U.S. Air Force's Thunderbirds zoomed upside down and looped through the sky. The stunts marked the Chinese debut of the crack F-16 team. But the show almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy: Thunderbirds Over China | 10/5/1987 | See Source »

These votes for women's colleges are just two in a newly resurgent constituency. The 1960s and '70s were lean years for women's education. The opening of such male bastions as Yale, Dartmouth and the service academies helped draw so many crack high school girls into coed institutions that two- thirds of the nation's 298 women's colleges either went coed or closed their doors. But today the surviving 101 boast that undergraduate enrollment is surging, despite a declining pool of high school graduates. Last week a preliminary survey of 64 schools, conducted by the Women's College...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Why Can't a Woman Be More? | 10/5/1987 | See Source »

Next stop, Grambling. Sam was once treasurer of the college here, as well as treasurer of nearby Louisiana Tech University. He knew practically everyone ^ listening to the candidate, whose voice was a painful crack. The midday blast furnace was so oppressive our socks were soaked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Louisiana: We Got the Hook in 'Em Now, Bubba | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

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