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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...against one of Washington's oldest and largest priesthoods -- the arms-control experts, who say hope must be locked out and megatons must rule. They may be right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: We'Ll Talk About Everything | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

...past three months, the students have been compiling a 220-page book entitled "How Harvard Rules," which promises to raise a few eyebrows. The $8 paperback, to be released in January, will critique and analyze the nation's oldest university, which publicists charge "shelters rampaging Cold Warriors, ferociously racist and sexist theoreticians in the social and natural sciences, and corporate apologists masquerading as 'value-free' academics...

Author: By Joseph C. Tedeschi, | Title: Amid 350th Pomp, Students to Publish Book Criticizing Harvard Traditions | 11/7/1986 | See Source »

...side contest was 115th year of the oldest international intercollegiate rivalry--dating back to 1872. The Canadians took home the Cvo cup, the prize given to the winners of the annual contest, for the third straight year...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: McGill Flattens Ruggers | 11/4/1986 | See Source »

Sweeney, 71, is believed to be the oldest intercollegiate athlete in the nation, the Associated Press reported. The white-bearded septuagenerian played in three singles matches for Salem State, losing all of them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: class cuts | 11/1/1986 | See Source »

There have been other shady reports of mysterious happenings. Twelve years ago, a clairvoyant spoke at Massachusetts Hall, Harvard's oldest building, where a ghost purportedly visits each fall to take up the residence of his youth. The speaker also warned students that any photographs taken of her would not come out because of the strong supernatural presence in the room. Sure enough, the photographs came out blank...

Author: By Amy N. Ripich, THE CRIMSON STAFF | Title: Fearsome Phantoms Lurking in the Ivy ... | 10/31/1986 | See Source »

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