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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would be the best thing for the University if it were out of its legal power to divest," Schelling said, adding, "There is nobody at the University who wants to deal with the portfolio...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARCO Panel | 4/25/1979 | See Source »

...LAST THING today's acheivement-oriented, disco cool generation wants to see is a movie vaunting sixties nostalgia. Flower Child Groovies, Peace On Earth, and Power to the People are ridiculed slogans. Can anyone take Jerry Rubin seriously when in 1979 he summons BU students to sit-ins and protest rallies, regardless of cause...

Author: By Oren S. Makov, | Title: Blow-Dried and Fluffy | 4/25/1979 | See Source »

Perhaps the most important thing the strikers gained is a sense of resolute patience. "Back then, we thought we could go to Washington and watch the White House burn," recalls Judith E. Tucker '69, a former member of SDS and a graduate student in Middle Eastern Studies here now. "We didn't have a whole lot of political savvy. Now we know that change is going to come but it's going to come real slowly...

Author: By Joanne L. Kenen, | Title: Memories Of April | 4/25/1979 | See Source »

...thing, though, that has changed dramatically since those early days is the tools of the trade. One of the most importan breakthroughs in the game was the invention of the catcher's mask by none other than the captain of the 1877 Harvard team, F.W. Thayer. The catcher's mask has remained Harvard's legacy to the great American pastime for 102 years...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: How Harvard Invented the Tools of Ignorance | 4/24/1979 | See Source »

...resigned his seat on the Standing Committee while comparing the Faculty vote to the British capitulation to the Nazis in Munich. Other national observes also called the vote a capitulation, but Pusey--at long last realizing the necessity of some sort of compromise--defended it, saying, "The black student thing is a very special matter...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: The Strike as History | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

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