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...Crimson overcomes its difficulties and upsets Yale, the impetus from that victory could carry Harvard to win over Brown on Saturday night...

Author: By Jonathan P. Carlson, | Title: Crimson Cagers Challenge Yale, Brown This Weekend | 1/28/1970 | See Source »

Those scattered voices of protest are scheduled to be united soon in one chorus of concern. The occasion will be a nationwide "teach-in" on April 22 to dramatize the ecological ills of the earth. The idea for the teach-in was given impetus by Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson last fall in a series of speeches. Since then, a full-time organization called END (Environment Near Death) has been formed in Washington to coordinate the demonstrations, lectures and study sessions that will be held on more than 300 campuses. Under the direction of Dennis Hayes, an intense, ascetic activist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Concern on Campus | 1/26/1970 | See Source »

Sing, glorious Mews!, with what studied Ease B-wen swirled the Samnelson's three Times round his Head. Sing, Mews! How, when the Sling slung-out at the wildly braying Masses, the added Impetus lent by the powerful Mammon sped the Tome through the Air with such incredible Speed: seventy-five pages ripped from the Binding. Sing! How, as when Tornado Winds, ripping and howling, some fragile Straw some thick wood Plank drive through: So drove these seventy-five Pages, like the Edges of as many Blades: So were seventy-four Flarbs decapitated. Unfortunately, the seventy-fifth Page decapitated...

Author: By Algernon Mews, | Title: A Tale of Dissent | 1/23/1970 | See Source »

...reached only after long deliberation. In the fall of 1966, Magaziner was not sure why he and other students were dissatisfied. He proposed a research project to find out. Taking advantage of the independent study option. Magaziner helped form a group of Brown and Pembroke students, "whose only impetus was a vague dissatisfaction with their education . . . to discuss the role and purpose of a liberal arts college." Magaziner and his colleagues became Brown's first Group Independent Study Project (G.I.S.P...

Author: By Mitchell S. Fishman, | Title: Curriculum Reform at Brown: Part I | 1/14/1970 | See Source »

...answers. I think what they're asking for is relevance, and that we can find answers to some of the issues of our basic society." 7". B. Bottomore, 49, University of Sussex, England: "Today, critics of society are very active and verbal and this has given an impetus to the new sociologists. They have an audience. In the early fifties they had no one to write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Voices of Concern | 1/5/1970 | See Source »

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