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Tonight's contest should be a difficult one for the cagers as they try to rebound from their worst game of the season Tuesday night against Dartmouth. Against the Big Green, the Crimson was afflicted by the age-old problem of turnovers. It committed 33 errors in the contest against a very shaky Dartmouth quintet...

Author: By Douglas E. Schoen, | Title: Cagers Face Yale, Brown In Weekend Encounters | 2/16/1973 | See Source »

...addition of five women to the faculty is a result of pressure from President Bok and the GSD's special Committee on the Status of Women. The appointments were not made under a defined criteria, but through the age-old "buddy" system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GSD Analysis | 9/25/1972 | See Source »

...age-old "Southern critique" was reborn: So we have no equivalent to The New York Times, the Museum of Fine Arts, no Philharmonic, and (the killer) no Harvard down there. But who decreed that basic happiness rests on such things...

Author: By Dale Ruseakoff, | Title: North Toward Harvard | 9/1/1972 | See Source »

...Women's Lib western"-just what the movement needs. The remark is understandable because Catherine is ultimately stronger and less rigid than the men who try to run her life. But Marilyn Durham is not inspired by headlines. What she is doing is spinning her yarn in the age-old, instantly recognizable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Women's Lib Western | 8/7/1972 | See Source »

...however, committee membership suddenly became a source of political power. Any goatherd who sought assistance from the estate became politically indebted to the member who sponsored him. And financial kickbacks were not unheard of either. Soon families split apart in the clamor to win a committee position. Age-old feuds gained new fury, and at least two deaths resulted. Ultimately the two largest families-each with about 1,500 members-set up rival committees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Profits from The Prophet | 5/15/1972 | See Source »

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