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Although the meet was Harvard's for all practical purposes, the Eagle mile relay squad made the race close, and it wasn't until Jones' anchor run that the Crimson took the lead. The final time was 3:21.2, five seconds off the record, but Bennet Midlo predicts, "That mile relay record is is jeopardy this year...
...list are Rich Costello and Timmy Army, a pair of forwards that will team points) and Kurt Kleinendorst up front Scot Kleinendorst and Jon Hogberg on the blueline to form the nucleus of this year's defending champions. In net, goalies Mario Proulx and Scott Fiske return to anchor a squad that traditionally starts slow but picks up speed around playoff time...
...descent into a sea of polyester leisure suits at the Americana Hotel or a lengthy sojourn in a Ukrainian cafeteria in the east twenties. Though craven in the utmost, he dashes off to Djibouti or Jakarta at a moments notice, spewing out words along the way like "henbane," "anchor," "parlous," "jardiniere" as well as an occasional "zounds" or "sweet-patootie". A cultural sponge that oozes erudition and arcana, he recalls Yeats in the same breath that he expounds on an ancient tooth powder advertisement. No matter what guise he shows up in, Perelman's persona is a curious mixture...
...blithe as Hepburn's and a lot breezier. In the '40s and beyond, it was Spencer Tracy, the stolid, sensitive man of whom Laurence Olivier said: "I've learned more about acting from watching Tracy than in any other way." Tracy and Hepburn may have seemed intractable opposites?the anchor and the billowing sail?but a love of their craft and an eye for home truths brought them together and kept them there. On-screen and off, he played her leading man until his death...
...unfortunate, in the case of Social Studies' junior tutorials, it is particularly significant. Since the concentration does not offer courses, tutorials are the essence of its program. In a letter to the faculty committee, social Studies said that, "In principle, the junior tutorial is meant to serve as an anchor of sorts for the student's program." The letter adds that "Most students develop their senior thesis topics in the course of their junior tutorials." It would seem to make writing a thesis difficult if a student's program is "anchored" to a totally unrelated topic...