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National League President A. Bartlett Giamatti, at M.I.T., Cambridge, Mass.: "The enemy of the university is not dissent, not disagreement, not disagreeableness. Gentility is the mark of a great finishing school, not a university...
...Government Department follows theUniversity guidelines, but, according to HeadTutor Mark A. Peterson, faculty in the departmenthave had an increasingly difficult time findingenough University graduate students to teachsections. "It is a tough situation we face now,"Peterson says. "Our demand and supply situation isso out of sorts...that flexibility is limited anda professor often doesn't have as much leeway ashe or she would like" when hiring a teachingassistant...
...Harvard football team is not supposed to contend for the Ivy League title in 1987. The Crimson finished the previous year with a 3-7 overall mark. In the 1986 campaign, Harvard used a handful of quarterbacks before settling on Tom Yohe. The running game was a shambles. The defense did the best it could. But after the 1986 season, the defense looked like the sides of beef Rocky used to punch in meat coolers...
...junior year, the team finshed with a 5-16 mark under first-year Coach Wayne Lem. "Even though we had a losing record, there was a different attitude on the team," the California native says. "I saw a lot of improvement. The team was much better. Every single person on the team improved over the year...
...Adams day, a Harvard education "resulted in an autobiographican blank, a mind on which only a water-mark had been stamped." Ours has, I am convinced, produced more than a watermark, but it has also eschewed filling up the mind's pages with indelible ink. While shrill voices today prophesy doom for a class educated as ours, it seems to me that some of us might just be able to meet Henry Adams face to face without shuddering...