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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is an old saying that if you don't like New England weather, wait a week. The same can be said of Ivy League football standings. Since 1970 one game or less has separated the top two teams at the wire. Every season in recent memory the champion has been determined in the final weekend and the title holder has rarely been the preseason favorite...

Author: By David A. Wilson, | Title: Brown Has Size and Experience To Capture Ivy Football Title; Dartmouth, Yale Also Strong | 9/14/1979 | See Source »

...committee will re-examine its strategy for divestiture but will probably wait for the Corporation to make the next move on the divestiture debate--an indication of the Corporation's successful handling of the issue last year. "When the University comes out with stands likely to anger students, the SASC will take the initiative to channel that discontent," Anthony Brutus '77-5 claims...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Harvard--Divesting of the Debate | 9/14/1979 | See Source »

With the SASC taking a wait-and-see attitude, leaving the initiative to the University, the future of the South Africa issue will depend on the sincerity of faculty concern and the capacity of the Corporation to blunder...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Harvard--Divesting of the Debate | 9/14/1979 | See Source »

...wait. That isn't General Custer on page 476 any more, it's a wronged native American called Sitting Bull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: E PIuribus Confusion | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

That question is being asked most insistently by the nearly 1 million British-born children of immigrants. Unlike their parents, they regard themselves as Britons first, with a birthright of equality. They may not wait long to press their demands. In an eloquent TV documentary aired last month, a young Birmingham Asian, Tony Huq, expressed his generation's mood of defiance: "Gone are the days when we didn't even make a whimper. Gone are the days when we kept quiet about discrimination. Gone are the days when we accepted second-class citizenship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Facing a Multiracial Future | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

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