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Priority lists for moving are based upon CHUL's recommendations from last April 10, when CHUL decided first priority will be given to sophomores who lived at the Quad as freshmen and were reassigned to Quad Houses which were their tenth, eleventh or twelfth choice...

Author: By Deborah Gelin, | Title: Quad Sophomores Participate In Lottery Process for Moving | 12/17/1976 | See Source »

...breathless narrative of Walter Hagen's closing charge in the 1924 British Open at Holyoke to catch Ernest Whitcombe jumps off of the page. Hagen was facing a long putt on the tenth hole after a shaky front nine when Darwin begins...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Writing About the World's Greatest Golf-Writer | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

Talk about your giant killers! The Harvard hockey team opened its season last night with an inspiring 5-2 upset over the University of Vermont. Before the game Vermont had been ranked tenth in the nation in hockey by the AP and the Crimson had failed to receive a vote in the preseason poll...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Crimson Six Shock Vermont With 5-2 Upset Win | 11/24/1976 | See Source »

...Aztecs, McNeill notes, were on the verge of ousting Cortes from Mexico when an outbreak of smallpox blunted their assault. The disease spared the Spanish, who had already developed some immunity, but so devastated the Indians that even 50 years later the population of central Mexico was only one-tenth what it had been before Cortes landed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Men and Microbes | 11/22/1976 | See Source »

...admissions office reports that every so often they receive letters from eight-year-old toddlers asking "permission" to come to Harvard. Children write these letters and ask their parents to send them off to the proper address. Last year during Commencement season, a woman accompanying her husband to his tenth class reunion at Harvard became so enamored of the place that she decided the school would be ideal for her child. Marching into the admissions office, she asked for an application for her child...

Author: By Judith Kogan, | Title: Lies My Father Told Me | 11/15/1976 | See Source »

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