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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Like their Cantab counterparts, Northwestern students bitched aplenty because of the change, but Dean Rudolph Weingartner offered the "hope that nobody's grades depend on an extra two days." Like Harvard's mini-reading period, Northwestern's was the result of a scheduling fluke, and will return to full length in the future. Some, though, apparently benefit from the mandatory cram, chemistry lee turer Thomas Weaver reported that Winter Quarter grades for his courses went up after the shortened Reading Week. Daily Northwestern

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Contras, Koreans, and CLA Recruiters | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

Saturday's race was Radcliffe's first at 2000 meters. The official distance has been upped from 1500 meters--the length at which the Black and White defeated the Tigers a year...

Author: By John Zilcosky, | Title: Radcliffe Lights Cruise in Opener, Princeton Destroys Heavyweights | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

...What is a reasonable length of time for a graduate career...

Author: By Joel A. Getz, | Title: Graduate School Report To Be Released Today | 4/10/1985 | See Source »

...address comes not by way of advice and is not at all directed towards the reader Far from being a merely clever manipulation of narrative voice, it is a form of distancing for the narrators, an inner monologue which help to hold the pain and anxiety at arm's length, Moore's characters are often acutely self-aware ans the same time utterly unable to help themselves...

Author: By Jean-christophe Castelli, | Title: Moore Slaps and Tickles in First Stories | 4/8/1985 | See Source »

Customarily, the festival plays seem to be chosen to link up at least loosely in theme. This year there were fewer continuities. Of six full-length shows and six one-acts, three were Southern gothics, two more were raucous absurdist fantasies, three others dealt with diseases and hospitals, two depicted the betrayal of noble people by political movements they had served loyally, one was a heartfelt if muddled historical melodrama, and the last was a conventional two-character problem drama about a marriage. Although the scripts varied in diction and temperament, fully half were in essence realistic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Southern Gothics, Sad Betrayals | 4/8/1985 | See Source »

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