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Tonight, Harvard (6-1 ECAC, 5-0 Ivy) hopes to shorten this alreadybrief list when Ivy rival Dartmouth (2-3, 2-2) visits Bright Center in the Crimson's final contest before the Christmas break...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Big Green Invasion, But Too Big? | 12/12/1987 | See Source »

Newly appointed Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education David Pilbeam said that he may ask the faculty to move up the date for fall registration and to shorten shopping periods to one week so that faculty will have more time to hire competent teaching fellows...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: Advising, Teaching To Top CUE's Agenda | 10/30/1987 | See Source »

...here at Harvard, you are smack-dab in the middle of all the tradition of All Hallow's Eve (the apostrophe in the middle is to shorten `evening'). For starters Harvard's very location is at the center of a mystically important region. Cambridge itself, and New England, in general, are the birthplace of American mysticism and folklore...

Author: By John J. Murphy, | Title: Of Witches, Warlocks and All Hallow's Eve | 10/30/1987 | See Source »

...unusual step, the New York and American stock exchanges announced yesterday they would shorten each of their next three trading sessions by two hours to process the crushing volume of the last week. The New York exchange processed almost 2.5 billion shares in the past week, said NYSE Chairman John Phelan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Topsy-Turvy Stock Market Tumbles Again | 10/23/1987 | See Source »

...women looked like paper dolls cut in a row," says Designer Carolyne Roehm, who ships her minis to the stores considerably longer than those worn by her models. However, she jokes about "putting a note in every garment saying, 'I suggest that you will feel infinitely younger if you shorten this four inches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Finally, Let There Be Legs! | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

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