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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) is expected to decide today whether to impose a penalty on students who fail to inform the College by August 20--the date when the first term bill is due--of their plan to take a leave of absence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHUL Weighs Fine for Taking 'Late' Leaves | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

Although some students fail to gain entrance to English C or one of the two other courses offered for writers in the fall, the most intense competition comes when the student applies to Option...

Author: By Steven Schorr, | Title: The New Yorker Model: Writing to Please Harvard | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

There is a danger when a leader points out a direction and finds nobody willing to follow. As Henry Kissinger once put it: "A statesman who too far outruns the experience of his people will fail in achieving a domestic consensus, however wise his policies. [On the other hand], a statesman who limits his policies to the experience of his people is doomed to sterility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: LEADERSHIP: THE BIGGEST ISSUE | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

There still seems to be a surfeit of criticism, not much of it loving. Explained Eleanor Holmes Norton, 39, New York City Commissioner of Human Rights: "We are drunk on the notion that America progressively gets better. We fail to see that because the world is more complicated, this great Horatio Alger country is finding it difficult to do things that were fairly easy to do before." The result is disappointment and disillusionment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: LEADERSHIP: THE BIGGEST ISSUE | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

...wish to respond separately and succinctly to the following quote: The Green Degenerates "simply fail to realize that while triumphs over the Crimson might cause hysteria in Hanover, losses to the Big Green hardly cause a ripple around Tommy's Lunch." A good friend from Harvard, after the game, said that he had never seen the Crimson team jump around so much after a game. Mike, you might also consult Coach Restic concerning your blind assumption...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kangaroo Court | 11/2/1976 | See Source »

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