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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...need to play at a higher level," says Kenney, who played for the New Jersey franchise in 1988. "The ASL was good, but it's not at a high enough level yet. It's good for here, but the number of games you get [20 during the regular season] is just not enough...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Reaching for the World--Cup, That Is | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

...administration there is the burden of giving lectures, extra help and exams to the first-year students and to the 400 sophomores--double the number of students who failed two years ago--in a short time period...

Author: By Eric S. Solowey, | Title: The QRR: Stumbling Toward the Future | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

...immediate solution was to make the computer and data exams more difficult. For the data test, this meant requiring less "number crunching" and more interpretation by students. For the computer tests, this meant asking students to write slightly more sophisticated programs--requiring loops, for example...

Author: By Eric S. Solowey, | Title: The QRR: Stumbling Toward the Future | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

Finding professors and teaching fellows for the courses could be difficult, Gleason said last spring, and a lack of faculty could prevent such a proposal ever being carried out. But should the plan be implemented, the quantitative reasoning area of the Core would offer a number of courses in quantitative methods as they apply to various academic disciplines, Gleason said...

Author: By Eric S. Solowey, | Title: The QRR: Stumbling Toward the Future | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

Four players of this year's Crimson squad were chosen in the NHL's June draft, bringing the number of Harvard skaters whose rights are owned by an NHL team...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: There Ain't No Cure for the Summertime News | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

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