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...used to love the pre-game excitement, when he'd walk around Dillon half-dressed, shouting bragadocio. Junior year, for example, he predicted that the Brown game would earn him "total immortality." He then went out and hauled in thirteen passes, setting a Harvard and Ivy League record. He once told Dave Matthews, director of sports publicity "I'll run your inkwell...

Author: By Scott A. Kaufer, | Title: McInally, Bengal in Limbo, Quietly Returns to Harvard | 10/27/1975 | See Source »

...Department of Defense lifted a 1971 ban last week that prohibited Defense department-funded graduate students from attending Harvard and thirteen other colleges which had terminated their ROTC programs in the late...

Author: By Rick Blatt and Mark Sadowsky, S | Title: ROTC Funded Scholars Can Now Attend Harvard | 10/8/1975 | See Source »

HEARING MANY of these poems--there are thirteen in all--is a completely different experience from reading them. Plath's tone or inflection often brings out a sinister sadness that is only latent in the printed word. The well-known poem "Cut," for instance, can be read merely as a strangely detached, almost innocent investigation of an everyday occurrence; but when Plath reads it, it is savage...

Author: By Natalie Wexler, | Title: The White Heat of Plath's Voice | 9/26/1975 | See Source »

...Thirteen Varieties Theory...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: What Harvard Means | 9/1/1975 | See Source »

...President Bok's administration has dealt with it. "It's hard for us in administrative positions to deal with," he says. "Before, we used to know everybody. We knew how to deal with them. Our pain threshold is very low on economic matters. We hurt quickly. After thirteen years of benign neglect there's some positive, detailed interference in ways there wasn't before...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: Thomas Crooks | 7/22/1975 | See Source »

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