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More than 1,100 baseball fans, many in jerseys and caps, rubbed elbows with semioticians, psychobiographers and a smattering of baseball old-timers. They listened as Leonard Cassuto of Fordham University's English department deconstructed Ruth and "the politics of greatness." "Is baseball's canon-making procedure subjective?" Cassuto wondered. "Or does the statistically measurable quality of baseball make it possible to prove or measure Ruth's greatness?" Not surprisingly, there were many adherents to the latter proposition. William Jenkinson, a self-described investigative historian, attempted to quantify Ruth's home-run prowess, dropping such impressive phrases as "drag coefficient...
...whole cast demonstrates a startling physical prowess, as well. Elaborate swordfights, dramatic pratfalls, and dirty dancing are all executed beautifully, as is a graceful pantomime to the music of Pachelbel's Canon at the end of the play...
...Ulrich Nersinger Canon Regular of Klosterneuburg Klosterneuburg, Austria...
Alas, not all our familiar symbols of Uniondom can stay, though according to Buckley all the artifacts will find a place somewhere at Harvard. The inconspicuous Spanish-American War canon that huddles beneath the center stairwell has yet to find a resting place. "We're trying to find happy home for it... canons just don't have the popularity they might have had in earlier times," says Buckley. The baseball collection from upstairs might endue across the river in an athletic facility, and some of the many portraits in the Union will accompany the Class of 1999 to Memorial Hall...
...article fault's Harvard's French program for its departure from the traditional canon of French literature...