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President Bok called public training "the great missing link in American higher education today" at the kick-off of the campaign last week...
...only test left for the Faculty--and one that officials have looked to with ever greater hope--is the five-year, $250 million capital campaign, set to "kick-off" in October. Most of the money from the campaign will go directly into the Faculty's endowment. But Kaufmann cautions, "people can't look at the capital campaign as a panacea. In fact, if inflation keeps up we may find ourselves in 1985 in the same constricted circumstances we were...
...football careers have been surprisingly similar. Besides the fact that both started out as safeties, neither of them played much before this season whether at Harvard or in high school. Scott's roommates called him R-1 last year because the only time he got into games was on kick-off formations, where he was the first man on the right side. At Fairfield Prep High School in Connecticut, Scott hardly played at all until his senior year because the starting safety was Paul Halas, who went on to become a standout defensive back at Harvard...
Harvard then took the kick-off and began to weave downfield for its third straight scoring series. Polillio seemed transformed into a whirling dervish as the darkness descended. He scored his second touchdown of the quarter on a 28-yd. run, breaking a tackle at the line, cutting to the outside, and then blazing down the right sideline...
Perhaps the most exciting event of the new year was the kick-off of the news TV series, "Battleship Galactica," with a special three-hour segment two weeks ago. The show was made even more dramatic when it was interrupted by the announcement that the Camp David talks had resulted in agreement on a framework for peace in the Middle East...