Word: homers
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Harvard hurler Lora Rowning pitched the first game and was greeted by a two-run homer by Nancy Fox. Harvard cut the deficit to one run in the bottom half of the first when Beth Reilly singled Nancy Prior home...
After having an infield hit and a stolen base wasted in the first inning, Burks keyed a four-run fifth with a bunt single and then hit a two-run homer in the eighth...
Gardner struck out two and walked one in the eighth. Then, after Burks' homer off reliever Dan Plesac, Lee Smith got the call for the sixth time in eight Boston games...
...core of works on Western civilization, and, if so, what should be in it? The heart of the dispute at Stanford has been whether to amend or remove from the university's freshman Western culture courses a roster of 15 prescribed classics. Many scholars regard those works, ranging from Homer and Dante to Darwin and Freud, as part of a sacred canon. But revisionists, including many blacks, Hispanics and women, want to build a new, theme-based program rather too cleverly called CIV (short for Culture, Ideas and Values...
Last week Stanford's faculty senate voted 39-4 for a compromise revision of their canon. This fall the original 15 books, all of them written by white, Western males, will be pared down. Out goes Homer, as well as Darwin and Dante. The six new requirements are unspecified works from Plato, the Bible, St. Augustine, Machiavelli, Rousseau and Marx. Next year Stanford's Western Culture Program will be formally replaced by CIV. All freshmen will read works "from at least one" non-European source chosen by the professor, who is required to give "substantial attention to issues of race...