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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They controlled the ball on us for the whole game last year," Restic said yesterday, "and if we're not careful they'll do it again. Their backfield is capable of doing anything if we can't contain the option play...
That's not a bad option this week because Paul's Mall, Boston's largest (and most expensive) jazz/rock club is featuring Gato Barbieri through October...
Former Crimson President Richard J. Meislin '75, who is now a reporter trainee who writes almost every day for The New York Times, called the elimination of the journalism option "regrettable. Harvard has always considered journalism a second class non-profession, an attitude which is far off-course...
...bone of contention among people who defend holding onto the journalism option is that the committee decided to offer again this year an option called "Fiction"--one which many feel has nothing to do with developing expository writing skills. "We had a fight at a faculty meeting about teaching this creative writing course--one which I don't think is valid," Robbins said. Byker responded with three reasons why he thought "of the two anomalies" in the expository writing curriculum, the fiction course is a more suitable offering: it had a longer history, more demand, and a full-time teacher...
Whether the journalism option should be offered under a different name or different program are moot points. At this point, however, it seems that the quiet decision to scuttle a popular option in Harvard's curriculum merits more of a hearing than its opponents gave it last spring...