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Dates: during 1970-1979
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However, Dominic C. Varisco, associate dean for development of the Ed School, says he expects more contributions from alumni and friends than from foundations. "Most foundations don't give for endowment," he says...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: $20 Million From Campaign to Finance 'Missing Link' in Four Grad Schools | 10/30/1979 | See Source »

...clock at 2,400 r.p.m. that would fall short of spinning a billion times in a year, the fact that a billion minutes ago (A.D. 77) the Christian era had scarcely got under way. Still, such efforts to evoke the actuality of a billion are far likelier to give the curious a picture of an extremely tall stack of currency than of the quantity of a billion units. In truth, most mega-numbers (and micro-numbers) that fly by these days paralyze the mind almost as much as a googol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Getting Dizzy by the Numbers | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...Marc J. Sobil '80, chairman of the South House Committee, said yesterday that 'Abrams' action would give ammunition to people who think the assembly is a joke...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Assembly Refuses to Permit Delegate to Hold Two Seats | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

DiBonaventura played a particularly critical role in the first half. As the Harvard halfbacks had trouble moving the ball past mid-field, DiBonaventura repeatedly intercepted the ball and charged forward to give goalie Billy Blood a chance to breathe...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Booters Shut Out Tigers, 2-0 | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...undergraduate education is, as usual, at the center of CUE's troubles. Until the Faculty makes a serious attempt to respect undergraduate needs and to respond constructively to their criticism, CUE will remain one of the many "student-faculty committees," set up more to ease faculty conscience than to give students a meaningful role in setting educational policy...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: The Missing CUE | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

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