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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that Harvard (now 1-2 in ECAC play) didn't make it a contest--in fact, the Crimson battled back from a 2-0 deficit to knot the score, 2-2, at one point. But the favored Friars kept a territorial advantage throughout and broke the game wide open with three rapid-fire man-up goals in the second period...

Author: By Jim Hershberg, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Icemen Dumped, 6-3 | 11/29/1979 | See Source »

...fact that serious academic work will be blatantly misused, especially for fascist causes, is always a reason for concern. But one has to distinguish the serious and knowledge-seeking inquiry (which is always open to challenge and debate) from that misuse. Unscrupulous persons will always twist material for their ends. In 1942, I was managing editor of The New Leader, a social-democratic weekly. I wrote at that time a number of articles attacking the practice of "Jim Crow" in the American Army-the vicious discrimination against blacks. I remember meeting A. Phillip Randolph in Washington, where he had gone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Exploiting Research | 11/28/1979 | See Source »

...fact, some of our Cube graduates have become monuments in American society. Abe Lincoln, pictured to the right, never wrote for the Cube; but if he had his statue might not have been hidden on the porch of a building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Cube...A Grand Tradition | 11/28/1979 | See Source »

...fact, the schedule itself may yet defeat the cagers. Because of what Kleinfelder called a "communication problem" between the EAIAW and the Ivy League, the two organizations' end-of-season tournaments are slated for the same weekend in February...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Women Cagers Aim For Title | 11/28/1979 | See Source »

Britain was ill prepared for conflict. Despite its burgeoning Empire, its army was small-fewer than 320,000 men, most of them already tied down in colonial duties. (France had an army of 4 million.) War was, in fact, totally unnecessary. The British wanted political representation in the Transvaal for the Outlanders. Kruger was willing to bargain, but South African High Commissioner Alfred Milner, unfortunately, was the go-between. He was a dedicated warmonger, secretly backed by millionaire gold entrepreneurs. Troops were sent. They marched into the first 20th century war ready to fight with 19th century tactics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Hearts of Darkness | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

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