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another, proposed by Roderick Firth, Alford Professor of Natural Religion. Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity, would order officers of instruction to "schedule academic exercises [exams, etc.] for the fall term in a way that will not penalize students who are absent...

Author: By Michael E. Kinsley, | Title: Faculty Will Pick Calendar for Fall | 6/8/1970 | See Source »

...will relax as summer disperses the students, as the troops come out of Cambodia and as the U.S. force levels in South Viet Nam continue to decline. Most Americans still want to believe in their President. Nonetheless, apprehension persists that the substance, if not the appearance, of leadership is absent from the White House. Says Correspondent Sidey: "The presidency as a positive force is a concept which has escaped Nixon. His Administration has an aura of negativism." For many citizens weary of tumult, negativism may be enough. But if last week showed anything, it showed that the part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: At War with War | 5/18/1970 | See Source »

...ranking Business School deans were conspicuously absent from the list of signators. One exception was John A. Seiler '51, dean of the MBA program, who said he was "fed up with the Business School's lack of humanness and detachment from the real would...

Author: By Samuel Z. Goldhaber, | Title: B-School Faculty Members Condemn Administration | 5/14/1970 | See Source »

...periods when the hormone must be absent are the Achilles' heel of insects," Williams said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Third-Generation Pesticides | 5/11/1970 | See Source »

Lynn M. Riddiford, assistant professor of Biology, and a Czech scientist discovered that juvenile hormone must be absent from insect eggs for normal hatching to take place. This finding led to the possibility of releasing males with juvenile hormone on their genitalia. Every wild female that mates with one of these males would become sterile. If enough sterilizing males are let loose, the target insect's population would drop, but the hormone would effect no other species...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Third-Generation Pesticides | 5/11/1970 | See Source »

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