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Today's match will mark the first time a Harvard team has ever played Maryland, a result of Fish's beefed-up scheduling program. Perennial contenders in the tough Atlantic Coast Conference, the Terrapins rate as slight favorites to defeat the visiting Crimson...
...York Times does foresee a slight adjustment problem for its readers because of its decision to switch to the Pinyin system. Theodore Shabad, editor of the Foreign News Desk of The Times, said yesterday...
With the single exception of the Medical School, which saw a slight increase in the number of applicants, other Harvard graduate schools admissions offices witnessed a national trend away from postgraduate education. The Law School suffered a decline of 7 per cent, and officials at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS)--who say they have been expecting a large drop in applicant numbers for several years--report a 15 per cent decline from last year...
After the first few class meetings of fiction I feared that my unknown abilities would stand in the shadows of the deservedly more recognized students whose first papers imparted a slight sense of awe to the entire class. But something turned around after those first few weeks, something I would have to attribute to Diana Thomson's warmth and encouragement as a friend as well as a teacher. My papers started to reflect me as a person and as a writer and I sensed a great deal more feeling and confidence with what I was doing in fiction. I gained...
Time for the finals. This one was close, real close. Conventional wisdom made UNH a slight favorite, but no one knew what to expect from psyched-up Dartmouth, which had never won a play-off game before this year...