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...Harvard-Penn match will open a quandrangular with William & Mary and Franklin & Marshall, hosted by F & M. The host squad is a very strong team with three college division champions, and F & M should battle the Crimson to a close finish. William & Mary is the weakest of the four squads, but W & M defeated the Crimson by a point last winter...
...word that has to be looked up to be appreciated. "Velleity: volition in its weakest form." Rogin applies it proudly and neatly to his man Singer, a magazine writer becalmed somewhere around 40. Although his outlook is "upper-middle-class, Upper West Side...
...third argument is the weakest of all. Opposing a large increase in the number of female students, he wrote, "it is quite likely...that the pool of women applicants would fail to rise sufficiently rapidly to allow such a change without diminishing the quality of our students." Has Bok any basis for his assumption that women are more stupid than men? If not, he should give equal attention and support to the education of men and women...
...work of faith or art, though, Mass is catchy rather than compelling, weakest when it should be strongest-that is, at those moments when the proceedings are meant to be at their most serious. It is significant that when, at one point on opening night, the celebrant lifted his arms and intoned, "Let us lift up our hearts and pray," a handful of the spectators rose and bowed their heads. Everyone else remained seated, not sure how serious or how literal a consecration of the Kennedy Center was intended...
...than 7% annually?but since 1968 the real weekly earnings of the American wage earner have inched up from an average $90.67 to only $91.96. In the past 2½ years alone, inflation has cut the value of the dollar by 12¢ and the once-prized greenback is now the weakest major currency in the world...