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ACADEMIC PRESTIGE. This is flimsily supported, says X, by such misleading designations as "lower schools," "high schools" and "higher education." X would grant academic degrees at any level, and he would shake the curriculum as vigorously as a daiquiri. Hence, at the university level, students might study basket weaving and finger painting; kindergartens and elementary schools would offer courses in demography and experimental biology. No students would be failed, a strategy that "would relieve them of having to resort to the indignity of intimidating the faculty with guns and knives...
...around his neck and through his legs. At one point, he fell down but somehow kept dribbling the ball while rolling on the floor. Then, twirling the ball on one finger, he took two steps, lifted his small 5-ft. 10-in. frame up, up and away toward the basket -and actually stuffed a shot down through...
...loose repeatedly, sprang high above the heads of his much taller defenders, and loosed long jump shots that seemed to loop out of the locker room. Just when he seemed caught in a tangle of defenders, he would uncork a pass to a teammate standing wide open under the basket. Late in the game, in a desperate attempt to contain Murphy, Penn switched to a zone defense (illegal in the pros), but it was too late. Underdog Niagara won 79-69, with Murphy hitting for a game-high total of 35 points. Last week Villanova went into an aggressive zone...
...thermostat and broke it. He summoned a colleague, who arrived with a new thermostat that was 15 inches too short. The two procured yet another thermostat, spent an afternoon trying to install it, and after much hammering and knocking reduced the oven to what Mrs. Hutchinson calls "a basket case?literally. They carried it out in 14 pieces in a basket...
...Dover, who averaged 18.6 points per game this winter, led the Crimson basket ball team in scoring for the second consecutive season, and now ranks seventh on Harvard's all-time scoring list...