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Lamar said yesterday that he thinks the next ten years will be the "crucial" period for American undergraduate education as it "takes on a new shape." He added that his major task would be to "ensure that the trends toward 'core' requirements do not knock out the innovative quality of undergraduate education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Giammatti Appoints History Professor Yale College Dean | 2/3/1979 | See Source »

Sophomore Rick Benson soon cut the Providence margin in half, converting a pass from captain John Cochrane, but the tally, Benson's fifth of the year, lulled the Crimson back into a state of complacency. Harvard's Jim Trainor refused to knock Friar Steve O'Neill from the slot in front of Hynes, and the forward easily collected a pass from Bauer and beat Hynes from five feet out just 39 seconds after Benson's goal...

Author: By Peter Mcloughlin, | Title: Providence Bumps Harvard; 5-3 Loss Crushes Playoff Bid | 2/1/1979 | See Source »

...afraid a little change will knock out the whole base of the system--will set off a chain reaction of liberalism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sakharov Speaks Out | 1/31/1979 | See Source »

What is surprising is that McEnroe has come so far so fast matched against such opposition. He has beaten the likes of Roscoe Tanner, Adriano Panatta, Eddie Dibbs and Corrado Barazzutti and on one glorious occasion even managed to knock off Borg, 6-3, 6-4, in Stockholm, of all places. Still, quite understandably, McEnroe has a long way to go before he can be ranked with Borg. Or Connors, whom he has never beaten and who destroyed him in the semifinals of last September's U.S. Open. McEnroe likes to have some fun paraphrasing what Connors used to intone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: His Own Worst Enemy | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

...Muppet Show opens, always, with a knock at a dressing-room door. Scooter, the company's errand boy, sticks his head inside to announce curtain time. He is a human boy caricatured, and thus is a representative of one of the show's three main species. Human Muppets are featured players: Floyd, the supremely groovy guitarist; Janice, his girlfriend; Zoot, the blue-faced sax player who has seen it all; Animal, the out-of-control drummer who must be chained to the wall; Crazy Harry, the special-effects man who is fond of explosions; the incomprehensible and meatball-brained Swedish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Those Marvelous Muppets | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

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