Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these facts: 1) Harvard has what is probably the finest hockey team in its history; 2) Even this team barely made it into the finals--a first for Harvard since 1981 and only the second time since 1978, despite the fact that over that span Harvard has usually had better teams than any of its opponents and has six times made the NCAA playoffs; 3) In the third period of the Boston College game this year, Harvard entered the period with a 5-2 lead, watched B.C. take 21 shots and score twice, took only two shots itself, scored...
...done? Two alternatives at least suggest themselves: one is to eliminate our Saturday night games, or, if that can't be done, insist that our opponents play on Friday and Saturday as well. Otherwise, we don't play. That may be a tough stand to take, but better that than this cruel fiasco of asking our players to go in there and be humiliated seven years out of eight...
...with this nonsense of playing one semifinal on Thursday night and the other on Friday night. Not long ago The Globe revealed that the Thursday night winners had won 19 out of the previous 22 NCAA finals. I predict that Harvard will be finalists again this year. We better start praying that they get the Thursday night draw...
...Lord of the Flies," said Richard C. Marius, who heads Expository Writing. "Now everyone has read Stephen King. In understanding children and adults and evil and their confrontation with evil, Stephen King is in a class with Henry James and the Turn of the Screw. He is a lot better than Edgar Allen...
Nevertheless, the beacon of hope for a better life in America burns brightest for those who endure the most profound debasement and despair in their native land. While the U.S. today is ill-equipped to take them all in, the dream lives on. For that reaca p16.227son, the immigration wave is not likely to stop or even slow. "People aren't going to write their relatives and say, 'Don't come,' " argues Bishop Fitzpatrick. Nor, despite the burden, is the U.S. likely to turn its back on its history by hanging out a sign that reads NO VACANCY...