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...quick CCNY quintet came out pressing in the second half, forcing Harvard to commit a slew of turnovers. Both squads spent most of the half scrambling for loose balls as center court looked like a grabfest between gregarious octopi...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hoopsters Cruise By City in IAB Debut, 59-49 | 12/11/1976 | See Source »

...show, a benefit for the Jimmy Fund, a charity to help children with cancer, also features Scott Hamilton, a skater who was in a Jimmy Fund hospital nine years ago and was told he had only six months to live. Since then, he has won a slew of championships, including the 1976 United States Junior Men's Championship...

Author: By Marc M. Sadowsky, | Title: SPORTS | 11/18/1976 | See Source »

Brown weekend festivities begin Friday, when the Harvard cross country team duels opponents from Princeton and Yale at Franklin Field in Boston. The Crimson harriers already disposed of a weak Brown cross country team, despite a torrential downpour and a slew of disqualifications when Harvard runners took their shirts...

Author: By Marc M. Sadowsky, | Title: SPORTS | 10/28/1976 | See Source »

...people who both gave and took hospitality were those who, like a lot of Greeks, enjoyed the feeling of peculiarity or singularity in others and themselves. These tended to be travelers without any plans. The Bolivian, for example, who spoke only Spanish and Rumanian but let go a slew of facial expressions and circular gestures that drew...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: Trapped in Perpetual Transit | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

...slew of the leading textbooks written and used by Harvard professors to teach their courses met few hurdles on the rise to the best-seller list. Many are now used in courses here because there are no competitors in their field. Such is the case with Y.C. Ho's "Applied Optimal Control," which the co-author used to teach Engineering 202, "Optimization and Control of Deterministic and Dynamic Systems." Ho and Arthur Bryson, who first taught the course here and then moved to teach at Stanford, compiled their voluminous lecture notes, making their ground-breaking work accessible to thousands...

Author: By Judy Kogan, | Title: Why your professors assign their own textbooks | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

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