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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Oppenheimer, Richard C. Marius, director of expository writing, and Henry C. Moses, dean of freshmen, speaking at a Danforth Center-sponsored discussion on "The Teaching of Freshmen." concluded that two major problems of the first year are the lack of adequate freshmen conselling and the combination of young, inexperienced section leaders and aggressive students...

Author: By Monique A. Sullivan, | Title: Danforth Panel on Teaching Discusses Freshman Fears | 11/6/1979 | See Source »

...money was basically the same, but Finley said he would include in the contract a guarantee that Mike would play for the A's during the month of September, when major league rosters are expanded from 24 to 40 players...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Mike Stenhouse Meets Charles O. Finley | 11/6/1979 | See Source »

...gotten them. King, who supported Timilty in 1975, agreed with the Black Political Task Force's assessment of this year's race: vote against White, but don't endorse Timilty. The city's other leading liberal--State Rep. Barney Frank '62--gave his support to Timilty. But with the major papers lined up against him, it all seems too little and too late. The Finnegan people, meanwhile, are keeping pretty quiet. While Bill Ezekial, the man who ran Finnegan's preliminary campaign, has switched to the Timilty camp, the candidate says he just "doesn't feel motivated toward involvement...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Joe Timilty's Lonely Campaign | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...recent failure to adequately address the issue of racism does not speak well for him, his past success in leading Boston through the worst of racial times is commendable. White runs Boston like a Russian noble ruling his estate--demanding service and giving favors in return. But, as other major American cities have floundered, his machine brand of politics seems to have kept Boston on its feet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Same Mayor | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...felt in the same way as the CCA's, mainly because their candidates are of a different breed. Instead of the team players on the CCA, they tend toward individual stardom--Walter Sullivan for example has a network of buddies and relatives built up since he broke into the major leagues more than two decades ago--he doesn't need the CHT card file to help his effort. It's a little hard to gauge the strength of the CHT campaign effort--the group as of Friday hadn't filed the campaign finance report due a week earlier. Group president...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: The Buddy System | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

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