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...attentions of the rest of the league will be focused on Ithaca, N.Y., where league-undefeateds Penn and Cornell will battle for the Ivy title, but not the PBS cameras, which will carry this Game instead (much to the dismay of Quaker and Big Red boosters in the East). After all, The Game has tradition going for it--and in Ivy League football, that counts...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: The Season Begins and Ends Today | 11/22/1986 | See Source »

...write to express our dismay at an opinion expressed in The Crimson by John Ross (October 6). Ross argued that the anti-apartheid movement at Harvard should shift gears from demanding divestment to raising material aid for the liberation movements in South Africa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Divestment | 10/23/1986 | See Source »

Over the summer, I learned, to my dismay, that Harvard harbors plans to eliminate the venerable Busch-Reisinger Museum of Germanic Art; supposedly the flamboyant structure on the corner of Kirkland and Divinity Streets no longer meets "state-of-the-art" conservation standards. Anxious to verify this, I inquired of Museum officials and was informed that "it was not permitted" for them to discuss matters pertaining to the Museum's closure. Well, far be it from me to impede the inexorable march of progress; but I can't help wondering just who (aside from those administrators who are slated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Busch-Reisinger Closing | 10/1/1986 | See Source »

...dismay of many educators, the SAT has achieved a statistical majesty similar to the Dow Jones industrial average or the Gross National Product. The public tends to regard the SAT as a single number capable of summing up the health, or lack of it, of the nation's schools...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: class cuts | 9/27/1986 | See Source »

...much to the Austrialian's dismay, their complaints were all but ignored. The delegation returned home empty-handed...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: Grain Pain | 9/24/1986 | See Source »

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