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...Herd" was the word in Harvard cross country circles this fall. Senior captain Mark Meyer and senior Eddie Sheehan joined Fitzie to lead the harriers to a solid season, including a convincing victory in the Big Three meet with Princeton and Yale. Coach Bill McCurdy's harriers notched the 28th spot in the national ranks...
...criticizes the distinction between analytic and synthetic philosophy because it rests on an unacceptably obscure and imprecise notion of meaning. Quine has served on the Harvard faculty since 1936, four years after he received his Ph.D. here. His books include A System of Logistic (1934), Mathematical Logic (1940) and Word and Object (1960). Born in Akron, Ohio, Quine will be 71 later this month...
...filled his speech with anecdotes, saying John Quincy Adams told his mother the "mere mention of the word attorney' incites the ire of others...
Eloquent statements of purpose have not in the past moved departments to comply with tutorial legislation, and Bowersock's plan carries no more weighty method of enforcement. Bowersock defends his policy, explaining that, "enforcing was a word I never intended to use in connection with these reforms." Persuading, he adds, is a more appropriate approach. "We can't knock heads together in this University; that's not the way we work...
When he was allowed to visit the U.S. in 1977, he sent word to Washington, B.C., Psychiatrist Walter Reich that he wanted a second opinion from American doctors. His motives: to clear his name, and raise enough of a hue and cry that he would not be confined again...