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...educators are as bullish as Mullish on intersession courses. The innovation stemmed in part from the unnrest in the late 1960s about traditional forms of education. That trend toward experimentation is undergoing serious re-examination at many universities and affecting intersession courses at a few. Wesleyan University, for example, has discontinued its intersession program partly because it was proving too expensive. Supporters of the idea, however, still see the January term as a valuable way to bring more variety into college curriculums-for both students and professors...
Rockefeller, who moved to the state 13 years ago as an antipoverty worker, was finally able to put to rest the carpetbagger issue by emphasizing his four years of service as West Virginia's secretary of state and his two years as president of Wesleyan College in Buckhannon. "I am a West Virginian," insisted the New York City-born Democrat. "My kids were born here. Try and tell them they're not West Virginians...
...comes to Harvard from Vanderbilt University, where he served as director of external affairs since 1966. Before that, he headed Princeton's summer studies program and did consulting work in education for the Reading Lab in Philadelphia. He began his academic career in 1950, teaching History and Philosophy at Wesleyan University...
Still leading by one, Wesleyan was content to kick the ball upfield and waste time. Struggling to keep the ball in the offensive end, Harvard nevertheless had its chances to knot the score. At one point, Bullard was robbed by a brilliant save by the Cardinal goalie...
...final seconds, the ball was loose in the goal mouth and the Crimson bench exploded repeatedly thinking Harvard had scored, but it was not to be. Wesleyan survived the scare, and was a 2-1 victor when the final gun sounded...