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After having its streak of eight consecutive Eastern Seaboard titles snapped last year, the Harvard men's swimming team will try to regain its dominance in the Ivies in 1987-'88. To help, the aquamen pulled in seven freshmen: Dainel Hume of Ann Arbor, Mich.; Thomas Killion of Fairfield, Conn.; Johnathan Manson of Decatur, Ga.; Gregory Tull of Phoenixville, Penn.; Paul Watson of Armonu, Penn.; Albert Wolf of Bethel Park, Penn.; and Jose Zumpano of Miami...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Freshmen Set to Invade Athletic Arenas | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

...Administration); Carmine Ercolano (Operations) Researchers: Dorothy Affa Ames, Martha Bardach, Anne Callahan, Stanley Kayne, Paula Hornak Kellner, Gary Roberts, Nancy Smith- Alam, Melanie Stephens, Robert B. Stevens, Mary Themo Photographers: Eddie Adams, Terry Ashe, William Campbell, Sahm Doherty, Michael Evans, Rudi Frey, Dirck Halstead, Peter Jordan, Shelly Katz, David Hume Kennerly, Neil Leifer, Ben Martin, Harry Mattison, Mark Meyer, Ralph Morse, Robin Moyer, Carl Mydans, James Nachtwey, Matthew Naythons, Stephen Northup, Bill Pierce, David Rubinger, Antonio Suarez, Ted Thai, Diana Walker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Masthead September 14, 1987 | 9/14/1987 | See Source »

...Eisenberg (Administration); Carmine Ercolano (Operations) Researchers: Dorothy Affa, Martha Bardach, Anne Callahan, Stanley Kayne, Paula Hornak Kellner, Gary Roberts, Nancy Smith- Alam, Melanie Stephens, Robert B. Stevens, Mary Themo Photographers: Eddie Adams, Terry Ashe, William Campbell, Sahm Doherty, Michael Evans, Rudi Frey, Dirck Halstead, Peter Jordan, Shelly Katz, David Hume Kennerly, Neil Leifer, Ben Martin, Harry Mattison, Mark Meyer, Ralph Morse, Robin Moyer, Carl Mydans, James Nachtwey, Matthew Naythons, Stephen Northup, Bill Pierce, David Rubinger, Antonio Suarez, Ted Thai, Diana Walker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Masthead September 7, 1987 | 9/7/1987 | See Source »

...artful equivocation is an almost impossible concept to explain, but it is easy to demonstrate. Let us take our earlier typical examination question, "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?" The equivocator would answer it this way: "Some people believe that David Hume was not necessarily a great philospher because his thought was merely a reflection of conditions around him, colored by his own personality. Others, however, strongly support Hume's greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Beating the System | 8/18/1987 | See Source »

...long run the expert in the use of unwarranted assumptions comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with our question of Hume not by baffling the grader or fencing with him but like this: "It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all intellectual fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Beating the System | 8/18/1987 | See Source »

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