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...Jewett downplays his intellectual prowess."I consider myself to be interested in academicissues and goals," Jewett says. "Whether I do thatas well as a person with a Ph.D, I don't know."Thirty years have passed since Jewett graduatedmagna cum laude, but he has never given uphis interest in academia. In fact the governmentmajor, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, has taken atleast one course every semester he has been atHarvard...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Jewett: Harvard Man As College Dean | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

...going to deliver a lecture. Getting a round of applause and laughter, Rosovsky said the only other times of the year he finds himself in Sanders are for one Ec 10 lecture and for Yom Kippur services. The former dean of the Faculty also demonstrated his athletic prowess as he ever-so-gracefully leaped from the stage to the floor where he took his seat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reporter's Notebook | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

Duke was the NCAA runner-up last season, and its skill and prowess is realistically the main reason that a bang-out crowd of 3000 showed up at Briggs. Still, Harvard did itself proud with a gutty performance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Silly Putty | 2/11/1987 | See Source »

This year the team started a new tradition,playing the Yale chess team. And to match thefootball team's prowess, the chess team won theirbattle

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chess Team Wins Big: #1 in USA | 1/9/1987 | See Source »

...still too early to know whether the contras will drown in the tidal wave of revelations currently washing over the White House. Certainly it is unwise to write off an army that has repeatedly shown staying power, if not fighting prowess. Indeed, in Nicaragua, there is talk that Honduras' recent attacks were a diversionary tactic to allow the contras to infiltrate Nicaragua in time for a spectacular holiday attack. In Honduras, however, the word is that the contras' fireworks will not begin until the end of January. Whenever the contras finally do resume their war, the pyrotechnics will have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaragua Is It Curtains? | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

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