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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, has been miraculously moist. Around Circle, Jessie has been cutting 50-bushel-an-acre wheat. Wheat that good bends the stalks and lies close to the ground looking like the matted coat of a golden-haired dog. Heavy wheat is hard to cut, though. The combine has to move slowly, with its cutting head close to the ground. "Ease it up, Roger. Ease it up," radios Jessie to one of his combine drivers. "You're blowing too much grain out of the back." At only $3 a bushel, farmers can't afford to lose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Montana: Rolling North with the Wheaties | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

...rather than soliloquize over the former Indian campground, let us move on into the Yard and see what it has to offer. Here walk the ghosts of Emerson and Thoreau, Kittredge and lots of Lowells; many of the great intellects of American history actually slept in these dorms. But that won't mean beans to you during Freshman Week, you just for here, no ghosts yet. Freshman Week is traditionally the time when Yardlings engage in a sort of mass baptismal rite, tearing around the Yard with anything that will hold liquid and dousing everything that moves. Traditionally, at least...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: Crazy Bob's Tour of Harvard, (Or What's Under All That Ivy, Sir?) | 9/1/1978 | See Source »

...debate, many professores complained that their fields had not been included in the Core; likewise, student groups objected to the plan's failure to include any provision allowing advanced students to by-pass the introductory-level courses of which the Core will most likely be composed. Rosovsky, in a move to graner support among groups that had first been hostile to the plan--notably professors in the natural sciences, who felt their disciplines were under-represented in the scheme of requirements--agreed to a "floater" amendment, which authorized the administrative Core Committees to study the possibility of switching...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Farewell to Gen Ed | 9/1/1978 | See Source »

...should be working his tail off at training camp for some NHL team. Jack's an ECAC and Ivy League All-Star selection, and to make matters worse for Crimson foes, big brother George (a senior) has led the icemen in scoring the last three campaigns and figures to move up from his current standing in eighth place on the all-time Harvard scoring list...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Sports at Harvard: Hard to Figure | 9/1/1978 | See Source »

...fanatic fan is one such example. A wide variety of students makes up this classification, but a particularly zesty sample can be found in section 38 of Harvard Stadium on Saturday afternoons, chanting such creative slogans as "Intercept, contracept, stop that ball!" and, "Move to the left, move to the right, stand up, sit down, on my face...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Sports at Harvard: Hard to Figure | 9/1/1978 | See Source »

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