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...responsibilities of the position will be "genuinely divided" between the two men even though Brooks will retain his old title, he added...
...Tigers swept six matches and tied one to retain the top spot in the Ivy League standings and boost their season record to 10-2. Harvard is now 3-8 for the season...
...imparting knowledge and information should merely be one of a number of goals for a college. Learning of this sort is highly perishable, quickly forgotten unless it is used frequently by students in their later lives. As a result, the amount of knowledge that our graduates actually retain from their college years is probably much smaller than many of us would like to believe. This problem is compounded in certain fields where information often grows stale and irrelevant or new knowledge steadily overtakes old theories and generalizations. For these reasons, to base a college education simply on the acquisition...
...altogether. Three days before Christmas, with only $5,000,000 of the fiscal 1973 appropriation contracted out, he simply ordered the Agriculture Department not to spend the remaining $220 million. His action has stirred a whirlwind of resentment among some Representatives and Senators who are determined to see Congress retain its power over the national purse strings. Several bills that aim at forcing Nixon to spend the REAP money have been introduced. Says one of the sponsors, Iowa Republican Congressman William Scherle: "I don't blame the President for this. I blame those Katzenjammer Kids at the White House...
Fonda told the audience of about 500 in Sanders Theater that the role of the antiwar movement would be primarily educational. "As long as we don't know who the Vietnamese are, as long as we don't see their faces, we are doomed to retain the thorn of Vietnam in our side," she said...