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...superfluous observation that an inordinately high percentage of these intrusive callers have been women. He mourns for the atrophy of some peculiarly female instinct for the sanctity--the inviolability--of the nest concluding of course that the attenuation of such feminine gentility can be attributed to "the wide-spread professionalization of women at Harvard...
...first to point out that injuries are only, well, the breaks of the game. Gusto bring, glory; if you don't have grit, get out. And no studies such have shown that House athletic injuries outstrip those in varsity athletics. Many of the injuries that do occur specifically the wide-spread concussions of House football, have cropped up before on other fields of battle specifically in high school football (In a sense intramurals are more fertilizer to hurt than they are spawning ground...
...said drug use by American students in Europe is a problem, but Georgia Stewart, a spokesman for the National Association for Foreign Student Affairs, denied that there wide-spread drug abuse abroad, the College Press Service reported recently...
Although he said he could not recall any tenured faculty members in applied sciences who had left the University to go into industry. Thomas E. Cheatham, McKay Professor of Computer Science, said that there is wide-spread concern at major universities that the most promising computer scholars are avoiding graduate school. There is further worry that those who do obtain advanced degrees are almost all going into industry rather than academia, he added...
Researchers at MIT and at Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory on Long Island have reached the same results in independent experiments, Benacerraf said, adding that Cooper's conclusions have gained wide-spread acceptance among experts in the field of cancer research...