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...Angeles, then followed with a three-point loss to basketball power Ohio State, 83-80 (at OSU). From then on, the Quakers have not lost a game while knocking off powerful squads like Washington (71-68) and Georgia (81-79), as well as blowouts against Haverford, Farleigh Dickenson and Lehigh...
This is hardly a new issue. Every semester at finals time a few more students ask why Harvard doesn't operate on a honors system similar to Haverford's. The request most often made is "why can't we all just go pick up our tests whenever we want and return them when we're done?" This, in essence, is how Haverford operates. Students are on their honor to work on their exams only for the set period of time using only the materials allowed...
...Levin who in the early 1970s spawned the idea of renting space on a satellite to relay TV signals. A Philadelphia native who once planned to be a rabbi but switched from religion to philosophy at Haverford College, he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and practiced briefly before joining Time Inc. in 1972. His notion of bouncing movies off satellites and into living rooms from Boston to Berkeley helped transform Home Box Office from a struggling service into the biggest pay channel in the U.S.; combined with its sister Cinemax service, it now has nearly 24 million...
Some journalists seem fated to write about certain subjects. Sam Allis, who reported on this week's cover, comes from a family with five generations of distinguished careers in the field of education. They range from founder of Haverford College to dean at Harvard to alumni official at Amherst College. Sam's father is a former chairman of the history department at Phillips Academy, which Sam attended before going to Harvard...
Whitehead was an undergraduate at Haverford College and earned an M.B.A. from Harvard in 1947. He has served as partner or director of numerous business concerns and as trustee for Haverford, Bryn Mawr College and the Carnegie Corporation. He has co-chaired the Republican National Finance Committee, and served on the Council on Foreign Relations and the Georgetown Center for Strategic and International Studies...