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The curtain came down much too quickly on the Harvard baseball team this weekend. The Crimson's 3-1 loss at Cornell on Friday and omnipotent 7-0, 6-2 sweep of Army on Saturday proved one loss too many to catch first-place Navy (10-4) for the Eastern...

Author: By Bill Scheft, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Batsmen Lose EIBL Crown | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

Conceding that these are worthy goals, Shils nevertheless argues that they have become "seriously in conflict with the no less important ideal of the pursuit and acquisition of truth." His chief case in point: affirmative action programs affecting faculty hiring. Calling the power of faculty appointment the "most crucial" of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Jeremiad from Academe | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

Like all figures in the energy debate, these will be vehemently disputed, but the point remains that there are alternatives to both nuclear power and foreign oil worthy of consideration. One is "cogeneration" of power; that is, using waste heat from factories and apartment houses to generate electricity at power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Looking Anew At The Nuclear Future | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

After seeing some shows, one is tempted to say, "I gave at the office." Moral solicitation for worthy causes is an old and honorable U.S. custom. So is a distaste for indignity and injustice. But, barring isolated instances, the theater does not lend itself comfortably to social polemics and underdog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Threads Bare | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

Let me clarify. Here was an anthology which was used by most of the universities and colleges of the USA. Some of the men who edited this text possessed some of the most enviable credentials the Euro-American world could confer upon them. Yet they could only find one Afro...

Author: By Selwyn R. Cudjoe, | Title: Afro-American Literature | 4/4/1979 | See Source »

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