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Gomes, who has worked with Ferris since 1970, praised Ferris's work with the choir, saying, "It is not for the sake of the clergy that undergraduates give up their Sunday mornings and their early mornings six days a week to sing: it is for John and what he does for them...

Author: By Alexandra E. Tibbetts, | Title: Harvard Organist Leaves After 32 Years of Service | 4/12/1990 | See Source »

...have art for art's sake," she said, "but you can also have art for people's sake. That's what public art is all about...

Author: By Hillary K. Anger, | Title: Volunteers to Highlight Diversity | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

...nation's largest such facility opened this week at Cornell University. Measuring 30 ft. high and 160 ft. wide, the $160,000 wall utilizes concrete blocks and specially designed pieces of real rock as hand- and footholds. For safety's sake, climbers wear helmets, are attached to emergency lines and work in teams. One partner on the ground mans his buddy's belaying line. In some places on the wall it is necessary to press one's face against the rock and inch upward clinging perilously to golf ball-size projections and toe-pinching crannies. Such realistic action thrills ascension...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Moving Up in The World | 4/2/1990 | See Source »

...ORDER to satisfy eight Core requirements during the usual eight semesters at Harvard, students must take an average of one Core per semester (disregarding for simplicity's sake double-counting Cores, full-year Cores and the large science courses that count for Core credit). This semester, 39 courses are offered in the Core Curriculum. This means--given 6400 undergraduates--that the average Core course will have 164 students...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Esprit de Core | 3/19/1990 | See Source »

...court judge gave that permission, but the Missouri Supreme Court, affirming "the sanctity of life," reversed the ruling. Now the U.S. high court must consider whether the federal Constitution's liberty guarantees, and the privacy rights they imply, include a right to be starved to death for mercy's sake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: Love and Let Die | 3/19/1990 | See Source »

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