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Referring to the general financial squeeze, Hoy said, "Obviously, this is a difficult time to make this sort of request." He emphasized, however, that "the money PBH wants is a pathetic, trivial sum in relation to the whole Faculty budget."

Author: By Samuel Z. Goldhaber, | Title: Faculty Committee Rejects PBH Request For Permanent Fund | 12/16/1970 | See Source »

Ostensibly Dumas is out to prove, particularly through the doomed Athos, that we must love with more head and less heart, but the melo-romantic-dramatic plot will have none of it. And while much of the musketeers' raison d' etre pretends to be the protection of female honor, the...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Theatre The Three Musketeers at the Loeb | 12/5/1970 | See Source »

About this time, student concerns underwent an important change. While broadening their own demands, they also threw their weight behind other oppressed groups in South Vietnam: a pathetic mass of war veterans, who burst upon the Saigon scene to protest bitterly about the government's refusal to help them find...

Author: By Cynthia Fredrick, | Title: Vietnamese Students, War and Peace | 12/1/1970 | See Source »

Elvis' upper lip still curls upward a bit, and his eyelids tend toward an insolent droop, but there is simply no energy left. It's more than generation gap that places the man closer to Dean Martin and Tom Jo?es than any current rock performer. Was this pathetic old...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Amerikultcha And Elvis Went Into The Desert... | 11/23/1970 | See Source »

Brown has had a little more luck in its non-league games, nipping a pathetic University of Rhode Island team, 21-14, and falling to Colgate, 10-6, in a spectacularly boring game.

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: Both Teams Hampered by Injuries Harvard Favored to Beat Brown; | 11/14/1970 | See Source »

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