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...racquetmen must beat Princeton in order to retain the national championship they wrested from the Tigers last year at Hemenway. The match they won the title in last year was the stuff which sports legends are made of. In the final two points of the fifth game of the last match in a long afternoon of masterful squash, #5 Chip Robie defeated a tenacious opponent for a 15-13 victory. The win gave the Crimson a 5-4 edge over the Tigers and virtually assured a stroll to the collegiate crown. The racquetmen will have to deliver that kind...
...times, the policies which emerge from Holyoke Center, University and Massachusetts halls seem almost deliberately illogical. You begin to ask yourself if any institution but Harvard would hire and retain a vice president for government and community affairs who has managed to alienate not only every community official but every newspaper reporter as well. And you ask why, if Harvard encourages its students to study foreign countries and become less ethnocentric. It then refuses to grant them real credit for studying abroad. Everybody knows that you can only really understand Florentine art by studying in Florence, but at Harvard they...
...guerrillas now believe that they can continue their offensive for at least three more months, and government officials say they can retain control, at least over the major cities, with continued U.S. support. Neither side has reported great progress. Anticipating a change in the military and political situation when Reagan, as expected, escalates arms sales to the Duarte government, both sides in the battle await the move from Washington...
...addition to Lange's articulate, thoughtful and open classroom style, his noted research work makes it clearly to Harvard's advantage, and to ours, to retain him as long as he wants to remain...
Even today, many decades after they were unveiled before an uncomprehending world, the early works of the modernists retain the power to startle. Picasso's cubist women stare out from the canvas with the faces of monsters in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon; Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye belongs more to tomorrow than today, as it has for the past half-century. Jackson Pollock is still a puzzle to many people, who appreciate only the fancy prices his paintings now fetch. That lack of understanding is what makes this eight-part BBC series on 20th century...