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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...GSAS officials slowly mull over the changes suggested in Rosovsky's report, the outside world is rapidly pushing change on the school. The number of applications dropped this year a substantial 11.5 per cent, and the shortage forced many departments to admit more than the GSAS standard of 25 per cent of the applicant pool. More graduate students than ever before dropped out at mid-year this year to attend professional schools. While Richard A. Kraus, associate dean of the GSAS, and director of admissions and financial aid, maintains that Harvard's graduate school accepts less of its applicant pool...

Author: By Suzanne R. Spring, | Title: The Perils of the Perpetual Scholar | 6/7/1979 | See Source »

...recent faculty debates on Harvard's relations with corporations that have investments in South Africa show that some basic facts are not generally appreciated. It seems useful to have these facts laid out so that they can be considered as members of the community mull over the situation during the summer months...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Corporate Withdrawal | 5/10/1979 | See Source »

...more recent years, some guests of note have been folk singer and comedian David Bromberg, Ronee Blakly, Tom Paxton and Martin Mull, who guest hosted NBC's Tonight Show two weeks...

Author: By Elizabeth E. Ryan, | Title: A Scoop Behind the Coop | 4/26/1979 | See Source »

...Midwest struggle to prosper in the competitive and loony radio business. Well-paced and actually funny at times, WKRP benefits enormously from an engaging small cast. But like all situation comedies, the show's writing will provide the true test of whether it can survive. Howard Hesseman, the Martin Mull look-alike who plays D.J. Dr. Johnny Fever, radiates good-natured egomania and could become a real star...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Toobs on the Tube | 3/1/1979 | See Source »

Nothing has raised the question more forcefully than President Carter's embarrassing effort in his State of the Union speech to establish his Administration's slogan. Although his staff has had two years to mull over the matter, what they came up with was something called New Foundation. It foundered. Some people yawned; others were derisive. Mainly, everyone was magnificently uninspired. New Foundation just did not have the ring of the great slogans of yesteryear: New Deal, Fair Deal, New Frontier, Great Society. Still, the Carter dud was only a conspicuous example of the general anemia that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Slogan Power! Slogan Power! | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

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