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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Saturday at Soldiers Field, another chapter was added to the rivalry when the Harvard softball team hosted Yale in a doubleheader. The Crimson took the first game in extra innings, 1-0, while the Elis edged out Harvard, 4-3, in the second game...
...more distressing aspect of your editorial. "Financial elitism" as practiced by the clubs entails charging dues that "not everyone can afford," so you say. Interesting. My first year as a member of one of the clubs I worked dorm crew, cleaning toilets for my extra pocket money, some of which I allotted at the account-busting rate of about 60 dollars a month to my club. One year the club roof sprung a leak. Where did they come up with the six grand needed to fix it? And who paid for the food served at the dinners, or the electric...
...straight- line distance (22.3 miles). To achieve this, the M.I.T. team built a gearbox with a 2-to-3 ratio instead of using a standard bicycle chain to transmit pedal power to the 11-ft. propeller. In addition, Aeronautical Engineer Mark Drela designed an extra-thin wing that provides 30% more aerodynamic lift than stumpier conventional wings. The team chose a strong, lightweight graphite compound to mold the plane's hollow, dime-thick spine...
Organizers said they are placing extra emphasison security for this year's race after a studentalmost drowned several years ago. Five policeofficers will be posted on the banks of the river,and two others will be in 25-foot launch on thewater, Frenkel said...
...work in this fashion. Each year the University determines the "payout"--that portion of the endowment's interest that will fund each school's budget. If the amount given to the College in a given year falls, it's not as if the endowment fairy is going to drop extra money on Dean Spence's desk to cover all the programs and activities on the undergraduate level. The endowment's principal is protected, and its interest is hardly unlimited...