Word: boast
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Sewanee because, they say, they want their boys to get the same kind of small-school instruction that they had-but which the Ivy League has since outgrown. (If Sewanee cannot match the glories of Ivy League athletics, it can at least boast an illustrious football past: in 1899, before football was confined to Saturdays, Sewanee knocked off Texas, Texas A. & M., Tulane, L.S.U. and Mississippi all in the same week...
Balanced Giants. The system-no name for it has yet been picked-would link 20 states and two Canadian provinces from Portland, Me., to Omaha, from Montreal to Winston-Salem, N.C., over 26,460 miles of track; it would boast annual revenues of $1.822 billion a year. The new road would be a shade larger than the pending New York Central-Pennsylvania combine (23,271 track miles, $1.806 billion-a-year revenues) but would have slightly less in total assets ($5.9 billion v. the Pennsy Central's $6 billion...
...despite all the expansion, Allan Cartter, vice president of the American Council on Education, reckons that only 17% of the nation's college libraries meet the 100,000-volume standard that is considered minimum for good undergraduate instruction. Only 25 graduate schools, moreover, can boast the 1.5 million volumes considered minimal by the council. In all, says Cartter, only two dozen academic libraries are "really adequate." Among the best: Harvard's libraries (7,245,000 volumes), followed by those of Yale (4,703,000), Illinois (3,748,000), the University of California at Berkeley (2,956,000), Cornell...
...curious thing about Spain's defeat of the U.S. in last week's Davis Cup interzone semifinal was that it wasn't even an upset. True, Spain had never exactly been a world power in tennis, but it did boast the world's best clay-court player in Manuel Santana, 27, a tenacious, skillful shotmaker who had won his last eight Davis Cup singles matches without losing a set. And when the visiting Americans got a look at the copper-colored center court at Barcelona's Real Club de Tenis, they knew they were...
...youngsters to care about learning. "They are the D-minus crowd," says Western Washington's Dr. Charles J. Flora, "the kids who say to themselves, 'Hell, I could do it if I wanted to, but who wants to?' " That is no idle boast for many. The IQs in the Washington project average 118, for example, and the kids cannot be conned by condescension. Indeed, most of them have a healthy attitude about the whole experience and, in their teen-age lingo, they like to joke about being "socially depraved." Quipped a Seattle girl: "We didn...