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...returned as the rigors of rowing and conditioning were experienced. The five races during the season could not justify the time and turmoil that was involved. There must have been something more. The satisfaction upon completion of the exercise might be one of the elements that justified the agonized endeavor in the stadium. But I'm not sure that this isn't like beating your head against a wall because it feels so good when you stop. The ordered exercise was a way of disciplining one's life so that it had function and regularity beyond that of the more...
Sprawling over 70 acres of Menlo Park, Calif., the Stanford Research Institute is one of America's largest and best-known think tanks. Its staff of 2,600 highly trained specialists solves problems and does research in nearly every field of human endeavor for both Government and private industry. SRI also does highly classified research for the military, and has worked on counterinsurgency programs in Southeast Asia, explosives technology, chemical and bacteriological warfare and anti-ballistic-missile systems. For its services, SRI last year earned revenues of $70 million. Last week it became apparent that in addition...
...legislators were reluctant to accept the word of several newsmen who said that their sources are drying up. One committee member suggested that an independent survey be initiated to show that sources indeed are becoming scarce. Yet this is an endeavor which, as one witness put it, would be "like proving there's no Santa Claus...
...supported during our first year at Harvard. The Class of 1973 entered college when student activism was cresting, when emotion ran high and effective protest seemed a possibility. Now, not four years later, we read of a return to normality on college campuses, of a re-emphasis on academic endeavor. This past fall, the powers that be even discerned a wave of apathy breaking over educational institutions from Cambridge to Berkeley and from Madison to Austin. Yes, colleges and universities had survived the turmoil of the 1960s...
...from many of the disadvantages under which they labored, and would possess a much wider range of possibilities than was open to either The Herald or The Crimson... That there is room for literary merit in the columns of a college dally is our firm conviction, and we shall...endeavor to combine prose, poetry, and news in such proportion as will be acceptable to our readers for their daily edification and enjoyment...