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...decided that it was time to stop the tradition previous classes had established of leaving campus en masse to celebrate on the night before the "Annual Examination." Not only did a large number of the class of 1823 defy the President's orders to stay at home, they also outdid their predecessors in the rousing good time they had, joining in an evening of billiards, bowling, eating, singing, and toasting at the Neponset Hotel, 10 miles from campus...
There was, but it had not yet surfaced. Students and faculty were on vacation. On Aug. 18, when Sanford sent a letter explaining the proposal to 65,000 Duke alumni, a terrible uproar arose. Professors, pro and con, outdid themselves with historical allusions. The Nixon Library was likened to a Trojan horse ("I fear Government officials bearing gifts") and an archival "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" ("We will not possess it. It will possess us"). Wits wondered if Duke could call it the Watergate Memorial Library. On Aug. 19 Trustee Emeritus Charles Murphy, a Washington lawyer who helped raise money...
...really a very successful weekend for each of them," John Babington, assistant women's track coach, said yesterday. "They outdid themselves and there were also some pleasant surprises...
...brouhaha resulted from a free-form and free-floating three-part series by Post Staff Writer Sally Quinn, who is known in Washington for her withering (some would say bitchy) profiles of prominent personalities. She outdid herself with the Brzezinski series, which contains a few blatantly smirky and sophomoric passages. She began the first installment with an account of how he had used sexual innuendo to rebuff her requests for an interview. "You'll just have to come out here and live with me," he is quoted as saying. "That's the only...
...Carter even outdid the Senator in calling for new spending by taking issue with his assertion that there had been impressive gains in the amount allocated for mental health research. Taking inflation into account, she pointed out, research spending has declined in the past decade. But Kennedy got in the last word. He promised to study Rosalynn's recommendations carefully and, echoing one of Jimmy Carter's pet campaign phrases, added: "To quote a great American, 'You can depend...