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...least to seek someone with a similar commitment to Women's Studies and to undergraduate education to take her place. We ask that all students here, women and men, think a little more deeply about what place women have at Harvard/Radcliffe in the future--both at the lectern and in the syllabus. Toba Spitzer '85 Radcliffe Union of Students
...lectern, Mailer proves he is still a Roman candle of ideas, spinning off sparks, noise and smoke. He gives one class his grudging approval of abortion but not birth control. "Women's contraceptive instincts become confused," he says, and spins his theory that prostitutes do not get pregnant: "When a woman has sex with five to ten different men a night, the sperm from each man is battling against the other sperm. It's the competitiveness of the sperm. They're all killing each other...
...Helms was a United Press reporter in Berlin, hunched forward in his seat in the Kroll Opera House watching Hitler rant against the Versailles Treaty. "I noticed that Hitler had become rather pale," Helms recalls. "He was passing a handkerchief back and forth between his hands underneath the lectern." Suddenly Helms understood. "At this moment," Hitler shouted, "German troops are crossing the Rhine bridges and occupying the Rhineland!" His mesmerized audience cheered wildly. Helms, then 23, was stunned. The world shrugged...
...persistent shortage of graduate students in the natural sciences annually results in the presence of undergraduates in the classroom--behind the lectern. They appear most frequently in introductory computer science and mathematics courses like AS 10 and Math Ar. as well as Biology 7, "Introductory Biology" and several intermediate level Applied Mathematics courses...
...taste for tall living has not given much lift to furniture firms since most executives have their desks custom-made. Shinn sketched an antique schoolmaster's lectern that he came across in New England, and had a carpenter copy the design. A specially built stand-up desk may cost $4,000 or more...