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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There will be cloudless skies, a high of about 70 degrees and only a 10 per cent chance of rain today, according to the National Weather Service...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: 1474 To Graduate Under Sunny Skies | 6/7/1979 | See Source »

...answered that question with a high-minded contempt for the democratic process. "An institutional statement," he says, "may come about through the weight of faculty resolutions and student petitions that reflect the views of many persons with little time or special competence to judge the issues." But should moral judgments be made by specialists? As citizens of the University community do not the faculty and students have the right and the duty to help make those decisions...

Author: By Celia W. Dugger, | Title: A Matter of Conscience | 6/7/1979 | See Source »

...this institution depends on much more than its liquidity. Bok rhetorically asks at the conclusion of his last letter "whether much will truly be lost by the reluctance of academic institutions to exert collective pressure." He, of course, does not believe the price of some amorality would be too high. After all, Harvard only contributes a small amount to the profits of these corporations. And what is that compared to the loss of freedom, independence and money the University would suffer? He suggests that Harvard should leave the moral decisions to the government: "We are more likely to achieve...

Author: By Celia W. Dugger, | Title: A Matter of Conscience | 6/7/1979 | See Source »

While diving coach John Walker and Bernal enjoyed champagne, cigars and gainers from the high board to celebrate the Eastern victory, the memory of moments like Mike Coglin's breathtaking anchor leg in the 800-yd. freestyle relay on the second night of the Easterns, giving Harvard a .03-second win over favored Princeton, heightened the euphoria...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, Nell Scovell, and Jeffrey R. Toobin ., S | Title: More Frustration Than Elation | 6/7/1979 | See Source »

When the Harvard hoopsters embarked on their Western trip at Christmas, the team was riding a high, coming off some good early-season contests and a strong showing against Boston College in Boston Garden. When they returned, entrenched in the depths of a miserable slump, coach Frank McLaughlin said his squad was "fatigued...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, Nell Scovell, and Jeffrey R. Toobin ., S | Title: More Frustration Than Elation | 6/7/1979 | See Source »

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