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Died. Max Carey, 86, former Pittsburgh Pirate and Brooklyn Dodger outfielder who stole a spot in the Hall of Fame by swiping 738 bases during a 20-year career in the majors that ended in 1933; of cancer; in Miami. Noting Carey's better success ratio, some baseball observers...
No one was particularly surprised when the Registrar's office released its preliminary estimate of the concentration preferences of the Class of 1979 last Tuesday. In general, the freshmen showed true to form, choosing the traditionally popular majors that have for years served as stepping-stones to graduate school.
But James S. Duesenberry, chairman of the Economics Department, said after the statistics were released that career interest isn't the sole reason the department continually topes the list of popular majors. The 158 freshmen who opted into the department this year, he said, are also responding the current high...
The list of top ten majors, released yesterday by the Registrar's Office, is similar to the pattern of last year's freshman choices, although there are noticeable shifts in the popularity of some fields.
Two years and a few days ago, in the early morning hours of April 25, 1974, Radio Lisbon began to beam the revolutionary song "Grandola" over the land. The anthem, expressing belief in "equality on every face" and a Portugal where "the people take first place," carried a message that...