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...that I've caught you feverishly cramming for finals and praying that you'll remember those obscure quotes from Plato's Symposium for you Hum 5 midyear, I think it's a good time to step back and really look at this beast called "Reading Period." As I see it there are two issues at hand here. First we need to ask what kind of miserable calender system bestowed such a monster as Reading Period on us undergrads, and second we should wonder whether this animal, since it does thrive among us, serves any sort of useful purpose...
Until 1973, Doris Mitchell, former assistant dean of Radcliffe, had coordinated activities for black women, such as teas, open houses and a career symposium, thereby delaying the need for a formal organization like ABRW. "After she left, there was really no one around who had the interest she had in black women," Anderson says, adding that in forming an organization, the women decided they wanted to be autonomous, since "if we had felt there were groups that were responsive to our individual needs, we would not have needed our own." ABRW receives $5 yearly dues from each of its members...
...Unusable" [(November 3, 1976). Beckett's essay "Dante ... Bruno. Vico .. Joyce"] (please note spelling and punctuation) is not "long out print." It appears currently with the other essays originally collected under the title Our Examination Round his Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress in James Joyce/Finnegans Wake: A Symposium. New York: New Directions, 1972. "Equally difficult to find" "Whoroscope" and Echo's Bones may be found in Beckett, Samuel. Poems in English. New York: Grove Press, 1962. Michael Haggerty
...appearance of cast members from the television show "Saturday Night Live" in front of the Harvard Lampoon castle yesterday afternoon attracted a crowd of nearly 500 to the Lampoon's "First Annual Symposium on Humor and Office Furniture Clearance Sale...
...enough to scare off many patrons. Since the summer, the occupancy rate of the "Grand Old Lady of Broad Street," as Philadelphians affectionately call it, had dipped to a disastrous 8% -and losses climbed to $10,000 a day. Even such gestures as last week's symposium did not help. Indeed, the meeting was really more like a wake. At week's end the Bellevue Stratford closed its doors-thus becoming the 30th fatality of Legionnaires' Disease...