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...everyone knows only too well, hundreds of students must wait for hours in one outrageously long line in order to acquire the precious literary commodity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Line Dancing | 2/19/1994 | See Source »

...strained under the pressure and is currently unable to meet student needs. Since intersession, hordes of desperate undergraduates have been descending upon OCS, forced to engage in a bizarre Darwinian struggle for informational supremacy. Students must fight for their chance to peer inside the mystical OCS binders which contain precious contact names and job listings. Even Mary Fan Kain, OCS summer jobs counselor, has described the situation as "hectic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Increase Funds for Career Services | 2/16/1994 | See Source »

...entered the U.S. Army believing you'd only fight to protect U.S. interests abroad, here's a new interest for you: saving the lives of innocent civilians. It doesn't matter whose lives, and it shouldn't. There's no oil in Bosnia, but there is something much more precious...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Act Decisively | 2/15/1994 | See Source »

BOSTON--The collective jaws of Harvard Hockey dropped in unison--of course, it's never supposed to end like this. Watching the other guys hold aloft the trophy destined for their possession precious few minutes earlier, wearing their imitation Crimson jerseys and flaunting the same sheep-eating grins the good guys had worn only one week earlier...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Eagles Nip Crimson For Beanpot Title | 2/15/1994 | See Source »

...brought home to the current generation of African-American college students that they have a deep moral obligation to uphold the humanistic civil rights tradition that is at the basis of that great freedom movement that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave fervor to and sacrificed his precious life...

Author: By Martin L. Kilson jr., | Title: Reviving a Humanistic Legacy | 2/11/1994 | See Source »

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