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Sophomore Laurie Downie turned in yet another stellar performance. She led Radcliffe to first place in the 200 meter medley relay (2:02.77), swept the 100 meter individual medley (1:05.58), and finished second by .2 seconds in the 100-meter backstroke (1:05.46). Her time in the individual medley set a new pool and Radcliffe team record, breaking the old mark...
Look out. Sunday night may be the night for Boston's finest jazz concert of the year. On the outside it looks fairly stellar--Sun Ra and His Humanitarian Arkestra playing two shows at the Boston Center for the Arts...
Saturday, November 1-- Without their stellar quarterback, Penn collapses in a paroxysm of blocked punts, interceptions, and fumbles. Disguised as Mayor Frank Rizzo and hobbling on crutches, a Penn student attempts to steal the Harvard band's drum, but is discovered and soundly trounced. Graustein, meanwhile, has claimed he was drugged. Harvard...
...moment chosen for India's deliverance was an awkward compromise. Lord Louis Mountbatten, the English viceroy, had intended to make his country's exit on Aug. 15, the second anniversary of Japan's surrender in the Pacific. Legions of India's astrologers howled; every stellar influence on that date spelled catastrophe. The ceremony was advanced twelve hours. The stars were not fooled...
...alumni office and the Radcliffe Institute take very different approaches to choosing. The alumni office has found that what Anway calls the "stellar approach"--finding well-known faculty members who are willing to teach a session on their specialty--gets the best response from alumni, while Downey says the Radcliffe program, which is only in its second year, is more intimate because it is smaller. "We're not in competition with Harvard's huge program, but we try to complement it," she says...