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...face of burgeoning enrollment, Harvard tries to accomodate two and a half times the normal number of students in the same length of registration time. Veterans constitute 71 percent of College enrollment...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Back to School: 1946-'47 in Review | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...postal system, which charged the recipient rather than the sender, the polite letter writer was supposed to be reasonably sure the communication would be welcome and to compress the missive so as to keep the cost down. Now the polite telephoner is obligated to restrict the number and length of calls to mobile users, knowing the recipient incurs costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISS MANNERS WARNS: DON'T BE WIRELESS AND TACTLESS | 5/26/1997 | See Source »

...after small town. For two months our journalists have been roaming up and down those Main Streets, taking the pulse of America. And over the course of nearly three weeks, 20 TIME reporters and photographers will wrap up that effort with a 3,100-mile trek over the full length of the road, crossing 16 states and winding up, on May 21, in San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Our Readers: May 19, 1997 | 5/19/1997 | See Source »

...some, the goal of lifting is increasing the weight one lifts until one has conquered the machine. To others, it seems, the goal is to show off one's presumed strength by strutting the length of the room wearing a huge leather support belt. Most of us fall into neither of these categories, delighted to do what we can when even the smallest amount of weight is a challenge to lift...

Author: By Susannah B. Tobin, | Title: Following the Worse Path | 5/14/1997 | See Source »

When Harvard moved, Yale struggled. With 500 meters left, the Crimson again increased the cadence to open up a boatlength lead on the now exhausted Elis. As the crews sprinted past the crowded grandstand, Harvard held on to top Yale by just over one length...

Author: By Matthew F. Delmont, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Men's Lightweights Take Easterns | 5/14/1997 | See Source »

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