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Housing and academics are less formal. All dormitories, except for one notoriously male bastion, are co-ed, and cross-registration between Columbia and Barnard is very fluid. All classes at both schools are open to all, but students still register at one or the other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Survey of Co-education in The Ivies | 10/4/1974 | See Source »

...points high (186 over 108), and there was a pronounced murmur in his heart as the mitral valve failed to close properly. He showed signs of an advanced case of hardening of the arteries. Listening with a stethoscope to the labored breathing, the doctor decided that the man had fluid in his lungs. The doctor's conclusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORY: F.D.R.'s Conspiracy of Silence | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

...tens of thousands of upwardly mobile associate faculty members and grad students have been able to cultivate tastes to match their salaries (or ambition) at a number of import and gourmet shops. They also do very well, but their market is very fluid, and, as a result, they have a tendency to come...

Author: By Christopher B. Daly, | Title: Harvard Square: Professors and Punks | 9/1/1974 | See Source »

...German shepherds have hip dysplasia (a flattening of the joint), attributed to selective mating of dogs whose congenital hip dysfunction gives them a long, graceful sloping line, but makes walking progressively more difficult. Chihuahuas, bred for large, domelike skulls, are often born hydrocephalic, become snappy and irritable as excess fluid presses on the brain. Neurophysiologist Richard Redding of Alabama's Auburn University has performed lobotomies on 15 schizoid cocker spaniels whose unpredictable behavior oscillated between cuddly and violent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Man's Best Friend? | 7/29/1974 | See Source »

Stephen Aaron's direction is intelligent, fluid, and painstaking. The orchestra, under Arthur Finstein's musical direction, is as successful as the singers it accompanies. Linda Martin's costumes enhance the personality of each character, and Zack Brown's ingenious set has only one troublesome flaw: A screen showing the descriptions Brecht wrote for each scene--a means of emphasizing that the drama existed in the performance and not in the accident of suspense--is impossible to read from the lower rows or the side sections...

Author: By Peter M. Shane, | Title: Begging for More | 7/5/1974 | See Source »

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