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...duplicated and distributed to students as well. A year ago, Brown instituted Fragments, a magazine to which student subscribers contribute poetry, cartoons, and answers to questions like: "Do you agree with a University of Massachusetts professor that 'the grading system is the most destructive, demeaning and pointless thing in American education'?" (Most students agreed heartily...
Looking further into the future, to the Preakness and the Belmont, would be pointless right now. One thing is certain, though: it's a pretty good bet that there won't be a Triple Crown winner this year. But keep your eye on Penny Tweedy's twosome, anyway. Even a small-degree of association with her former champions may be enough to get Capital Asset and Capito by this year...
...technically proficient and creatively sterile. People is easy enough to read, it is even reasonably attractive. The ragged right columns and the lavish use of pictures--some good and some so bad that they would never appear in Time--give the undertaking an informality appropriate to the spineless and pointless quality of the copy. The effort is an example of form literally without content...
...cannot begin to find a solution to problems until we stop looking at things piecemeal, he said. In his speech on "Is American Society Outsmarting Itself?" Slater said, "The system is not functioning--to look for a distinct malfunction is pointless...
...know, perhaps they would if either group had the temerity to invite the Vice President to Boston. What justification is there, then, for directing such vituperative abuse at the Harvard Republican Club? Mr. Schoen's clumsy attempt to demonstrate his ideological machismo is as inane as it is pointless. The fondness for such rhetoric is one of the attributes that distinguishes mindless barbarians from civilized individuals, and Mr. Schoen owes his readers either an apology or a confession that his sympathies lie with the former group. Steve Chapman '76 Gary Golding '74 Richard Smith...