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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should start by admitting that I don't recall Cambridge with particular affection. I miss the orange juice and the wonderful libraries and a few paintings in the Fogg and I certainly miss the New England countryside. But as an experience, as a way to pass four years. Harvard is over-estimated. It is no doubt the greatest university in the world in many respects, and certainly extraordinarily efficient at grinding out hard-working professionals. But at a basic human level Harvard is sadly devoid of charm or style. Students there are mostly uptight, immature and inarticulate...

Author: By Philip Swan, | Title: The Sad State of Arts at Harvard | 11/15/1979 | See Source »

Workers redistributed the second-choice votes on ballots cast for Fitzgerald, David Kennedy and David Blackman yesterday, as an afternoon that had looked gloomy for Koocher at the start grew progressively brighter...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: CCA Dominates School Board; S. Africa Referendum Passes | 11/13/1979 | See Source »

...with literature and bustling with candidates, courting student voters for the first time ever. The increase in campaigning will also make the Harvard voter more sophisticated; chances are no one will be able to engineer a win the size of Sullivan's in future elections. "Politicians will have to start paying attention to the demands of students." David Sullivan said as he watched the totals come in from the Harvard precincts...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Counting Change in Cambridge | 11/13/1979 | See Source »

...Ohio State Buckeyes take the opening kickoff in the end zone and start play on their own 20-yd. line with a blustery wind blowing into their faces. The University of Wisconsin defense is bunched close to the line of scrimmage, anticipating the three-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust plunge that has been an Ohio State trademark for decades. But on the first play the Buckeyes go for the bomb. Though it fails, Wisconsin is caught off balance, never to recover, and Ohio State wins, 59-0. Earle Bruce has delivered his calling card: New Coach in Town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Making 'Em Forget Woody | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

...average" female body builder. Most participants fall into the second category: women who work out just enough to compete in body-building contests where top prize goes to the best-proportioned, shapeliest and firmest body. Women can easily take off a few pounds in the first month after they start working out, says Tim Kimber, general manager of Gold's. But to qualify for competition they must buckle down to rigorous, five-times-a-week training. "Women can actually mold their figures the way men do," says Snyder, who is not alone in his distaste for more heavily muscled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Pumping Iron, Chapter II | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

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