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...understanding to his friends and neighbors, then the circle of impact will widen beyond comprehension." Lest the mind grow dizzy at the calculations, it may be best to point out that the overwhelming majority of returned Volunteers are satisfied with what they themselves learned; as for the millenium, they appear willing to let that take care of itself

Author: By Efrem Sigel, | Title: Peace Corps: Millennium Is Yet to Come | 3/11/1967 | See Source »

...Boyle's "A Poem About the Jews" rolls in 169 long, free-verse lines from Old Testament times to the present, noting random instances of anti-Semitic atrocity. She mentions the Nazis only in anticipation, and millenium-old progroms accumulate a terribly immediate horror from the comparison. "The Germans were not alone in their fury." Finally, she narrates in stoical understand language the Mississippi murders of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney, and poses devastatingly the question: "Can we say/ Now we have heard enough? Can we say the history is done...

Author: By Jeremy W. Heist, | Title: The Harvard Advocate | 1/13/1967 | See Source »

...only you could judge a book by its cover, the current edition of the Lampoon would be the most brilliant to come out in many years. How many good parodies of the Bayeux tapestry have you seen in the last millenium? David McClelland's cover brings the Norman invasion to Harvard and is much funnier than anything British advertisers produced in their summer-long camapign to sell Stout by making fun of the Battle of Hastings. If you see anyone laughing out loud at what's inside the Lampoon (and how often do you see that?), it is probably McClelland...

Author: By Timothy Crouse, | Title: The Lampoon | 11/22/1966 | See Source »

...games in themselves mean nothing, for the Crimson is already mired in the depths of the Ivy League. But seeing Sedlacek and Williams for the last time will have a lot of nostalgic value, bringing back memories of the days when Harvard basketball seemed on the brink of the Millenium...

Author: By R. ANDREW Beyer, | Title: Basketball Five Faces Brown in IAB Tonight | 2/25/1966 | See Source »

...predicting that the Millenium had arrived when Penn opened its season with a 20-14 win over Lehigh. But a week later the Quakers scored their first Ivy victory since 1963 by subduing Brown, 7 to 0. On October 9 Ponn was a 20-point underdog against Dartmouth, but the Quakers turned in a superb performance and lost by only 24-19. They won their third game the next week by edging Bucknell, 16 to 13, on a last-second field goal...

Author: By R. ANDREW Beyer, | Title: Crimson Face Molloy-Less Penn Today | 10/30/1965 | See Source »

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