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Students with outstanding talents in many fields come here--actors, writers, painters, athletes, dancers, musicians. If they are to find an outlet for their creative energies, they must do at least one of two things--either find courses in which to practice their art or find the proper extracurricular activity, both of which admit only a limited number of people...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: A Better Mousetrap | 2/16/1979 | See Source »

...result is that many students do not have an outlet for their talents, and further, those who have found an outlet have often found it in an extracurricular activity. But if a student fails a course and is placed on probation, he can be barred from that activity for at least a semester...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: A Better Mousetrap | 2/16/1979 | See Source »

...some of whom have the energy and intelligence to motivate themselves even amid the general torpor--but one's general impressions are sometimes important. Harvard theater is comfortable; many of those involved don't really care about anything as grandiose as Drama or Theater--they care about having an outlet for their extracurricular energy, about making friends and having a good time. Nothing wrong there...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Beautiful Music Together | 1/26/1979 | See Source »

Ever since the early 19th century, citizens of Alabama and Tennessee have periodically urged the Federal Government to build a waterway linking the Tennessee and Tombigbee rivers. Such a canal would provide a direct outlet to the Gulf of Mexico for all the barge traffic in the Ohio River Basin and southern Appalachia. After years of studies and debates, Congress finally authorized the Tenn-Tom project in 1946, and after 2½ decades more of planning and preparation, construction began in 1972. Today the project is still only one-quarter complete, leaving a deep gash in the countryside that looks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Dreaming of the Golden Gulf | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

...PAPERS INTERVIEWED the weeping parents of the victims, who blamed shoddy police work. They talked to his ex-wife, who divorced him after finding he "liked boys better." The reporting spread to other states. Authorities sought links to missing youths in Wisconsin, and the CBS-TV Chicago outlet ran a special report called "The House on Summerdale St." in which they stuck a microphone in the face of the Iowa judge who had presided when Gacy was convicted for sodomy several years ago. The judge was lying flat on his back in the hospital but the T.V. reporters were undeterred...

Author: By Jon Alter, | Title: My Kind of Town | 1/9/1979 | See Source »

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