Search Details

Word: losses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...agree that the current national flurry of general education reforms marks a swing of the pendulum back to the way curricula were before '60's campus activists forced many university administrations to abolish or loosen course requirements. Now that campuses are quiet again, faculties are starting to regret their loss of control over students' educations. Many of the reasons cited for curricular reforms sound like the same ones the fathers of general education offered in the early 1900s at places like Columbia, the University of Chicago, and Harvard. The speeches are so much alike they prompted critic Alston Chase...

Author: By Amy B. Mcintosh, | Title: The Core: Fashionable Trendsetter In Liberal Arts Curriculum Reform | 10/26/1978 | See Source »

...People's Union (ZAPU) in 12 guerrilla camps. That's what Salisbury said. Nkomo said the Rhodesians succeeded in killing 350 of his followers, mostly women and non-combatants. The U.S. State Department called the raids "among the heaviest and most destructive of the war, particularly in terms of loss of life." State expressed regret that the raids were carried out while Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith and his three black cohorts in the current "transitional" government were travelling in the U.S. and emphasizing their "willingness and readiness to negotiate." Ian Smith, back in Salisbury, said the raids were good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grim Prospects | 10/25/1978 | See Source »

...stickwomen, who have won six of seven since an opening-day loss to the University of New Hampshire, turned in another fine defensive performance, led by goalie Ellen Seidler, who recorded her fifth shutout...

Author: By Elizabeth N. Friese, | Title: Stickwomen Blank Brown, 5-0 | 10/25/1978 | See Source »

Harvard will travel to New Jersey to take on the ever-tough Tigers Saturday, and the confidence of the forward line will be key, as the defense has looked consistently sharp since the UNH loss...

Author: By Elizabeth N. Friese, | Title: Stickwomen Blank Brown, 5-0 | 10/25/1978 | See Source »

...avoided any interference problems with other boats, the Crimson cox, Liz-Ellen LaFollette managed to steer the scull on the wrong side of four buoys. I guess Harvard sometimes has to make gestures that will keep the other crews coming back for more. Like the men's heavyweight varsity loss to Yale at the sprints for the first time since 1973; if Harvard won again, who knows, maybe the other teams would have packed their bags and never returned to Worcester. Losing all the time...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Mixing Things Up | 10/24/1978 | See Source »

Previous | 104 | 105 | 106 | 107 | 108 | 109 | 110 | 111 | 112 | 113 | 114 | 115 | 116 | 117 | 118 | 119 | 120 | 121 | 122 | 123 | 124 | Next