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For the last five years graduate students and a few Faculty members have been criticizing the Economics Department for the rigidity of its curriculum and for the lack of diversity and Faculty contact in its graduate program. The discontent was generally dismissed as the typical yowling of a minority of...

Author: By James Lemoyne, | Title: Harvard's Tarnished Star | 11/16/1974 | See Source »

THEATER has a unique capacity to touch our best-protected secrets. When it does not try to fight, cajole, or debate us--but rather to beguile us with the notion that it has an existence separate from our own--then we will watch the circumstance unfold with sight unmarred by...

Author: By Barbara Fried, | Title: Out of Focus | 11/4/1974 | See Source »

Rita was the subject of several abusive wish-poems because, in the true spirit of writing "anything," she expressed her desire for all of the boys in the class to jump in the lake. I didn't let anybody know about Rita, but ripples of rumor turned into waves of...

Author: By Gregory F. Lawless, | Title: Among School Children | 10/31/1974 | See Source »

JOSEPH HELLER has been on an odyssey for the last 13 years. Since Catch-22 was published in 1961 he has been on a voyage through uncharted waters far from the Mediterranean island of Pianosa, the setting for his World War II novel. His voyage in Something Happened takes him...

Author: By Greg Lawless, | Title: Connive To Survive, Stay Alive Til Five | 10/11/1974 | See Source »

Perhaps it was that same pride which made five varsity members discontent to be simply intercolligiate rowing champions.

Author: By Amy Sacks, | Title: Coach Parker's Crew Squad: Another Championship Season? | 10/10/1974 | See Source »

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