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...justice the same court that sentenced him should proceed at once to close down ninety percent of the movies now playing and the newspapers that carry their advertising. Compared to the usual run of entertainment in this country, Ginzburg's publications and his ads are on a par with the National Geographic...
...Department of Education.In fact, the gender balance on college campuses in Agassiz’s time was more even than it would be in the mid-20th century.Even before Agassiz’s death in 1907 and shortly thereafter, the number of women undergraduates was nearly on par with the number of male college students. Women who were born in 1891, for instance, were slightly more likely to attend some college than men born that same year—though these women were significantly less likely to gain a bachelor’s degree. By the mid-20th century, parity...
...Yale Bowl in New Haven, Conn. was a game that will be remembered for a limitless number of reasons.“It was obviously a great way to end our season, but more importantly, I think it was one of the great games in Harvard history, maybe on par with the 29-29 tie in 1968,” Crimson coach Tim Murphy said. “I know for us it had a kind of surreal feeling at the end with darkness falling and the students taking the field. It’s a game that none...
...those of Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby and of University President Lawrence H. Summers. We reiterate Kirby’s warning in his annual Letter to the Faculty this year, that “Harvard is otherwise at risk of becoming a great university with merely sub-par undergraduate teaching.” This, then, is the function and gravity of the curricular review. In short, it’s time to get moving. The review is the work of eight different committees, the most wide-reaching and controversial of which was the Committee on General Education...
...every player had to participate in at least three. I had rather strong opinions on who should sit and when, which I never failed to share. He’d invariably nod and laugh before gently breaking the news that, no, we could not forget to invite the sub-par members of our team to that weekend’s contest, even if first place was on the line.And whether we were in season or not, there was always room on the couch—I’ll never forget leaping into his arms when Scott Norwood pushed...