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...principal item on the agenda of the House Democratic Caucus was strictly ho-hum-though it involved selection of the man who will fill the second most powerful political office in the United States: the Speaker of the House. This process has sometimes produced gory battles. But last week, with the 292 Democrats who will sit in the next Congress eligible to vote (along with delegates from the District of Columbia, Guam and the Virgin Islands and the resident commissioner of Puerto Rico), there was literally no contest. Thomas P. ("Tip") O'Neill Jr. of Massachusetts, after four brilliantly...
...started out as a typical Mufi Hanneman-type ho-hum affair, as early in the first half the Eagles flew off on a 16-2 spurt which found the Crimson down 28-11 halfway to intermission...
After three losses in exhibition games, the Buccaneers defeated the Atlanta Falcons, 17 to 3. "Ho-hum," McKay said, in controlled delight. "Another dynasty." Then came this championship season. Tampa lost consecutively to Houston, San Diego, Buffalo, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Seattle (another expansion team), Miami and Kansas City. When I caught up with them in Denver their record was 0 and 8, but their spirits were stained with hope. The Denver Broncos had been playing poorly, and a Denver physician who played football told me, "We need a new quarterback and a new coach." That complaint classically signifies trouble, and trouble...
...BEST WAY of encouraging students to take courses is to make the best teaching faculty members design and teach them. There is an historical example of how well this type of course can work: John Finley's Hum 103. "The Great Age of Athens." It was not the Hum requirement that made so many students enroll in this course. It was Finley's ability to interest students in the material. If the Faculty feels biology and physics courses are important, then it should present some attractive introductory courses in these fields--ones that would remain free from pre-med competition...
That path, as outlined in "General Education in a Free Society" better known as the Redbook, suggested that every Harvard and Radcliffe student would take the same lower-level Hum course, the same lower level Soc Sci course and one of two lower level Nat Sci offerings...