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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...goalie was named to the All-Conference team again this season with his 88.5 save percentage and 3.21 goals-against average. Those numbers are less impressive than Harvard goalie Dickie McEvoy's 90.9 save percentage and 2.25 g.a.a., but goalie statistics tend to be higher in the Western conferences...
Vanderbilt's Alternative Spring Break is simply one rustling of a new spirit of volunteerism blowing across campuses. In California, 40 Stanford volunteers took time out two weekends ago to paint an elementary school gym in East Menlo Park. In Boston, Wellesley undergrads tend to homeless women every night at Rosie's Place, a local shelter. At Northwestern in Evanston, Ill., volunteers have started an "adopt a grandparent" program to aid the elderly. Students at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor help low-income people with tax returns...
Because of this, "B-Schoolers tend to hang out together," says David Glassman...
...moral character of its students, who come to Cambridge to acquire specific skills and knowledge. It's only inevitable that a few alumni will do things of which the school won't be proud, so there is little reason for the soul-searching going on right now. Harvard graduates tend to do well after they leave because they were already talented achievers when they got here. The University claims too much credit for their later success; it isn't morally responsible when they go astray...
Some American business managers are pleased with the investment boom. Mike McCormack, a leading commercial-property broker in Honolulu, credits Japanese investments with pulling Hawaii out of a long real estate slump. Since Japanese real estate investors tend to buy for the long haul, many industry experts believe they will make excellent landlords, committed to maintaining the value of their properties. Other U.S. business executives simply view the real estate boomlet as a harmless way to handle America's lopsided balance of payments with Japan by in effect trading high-rises and land for VCRs and cars. After...