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...later proclaimed her as the greatest influence on his writing. His dad, Theodore Robert Geisel, may have been a beermaker, but he had a precision of mind and expression, as evidenced in a letter he sent Ted after the young man, a senior at Dartmouth, had got in trouble with the police after a loud drinking party. "While I do not object to your taking a drink," the brewer wrote his son, "I do object to your taking one in Hanover, while in college, if the rules of the college do not permit it. ... Abide by the decision...
...Whatever the genes that produced him, Ted radiated a comic precocity. For the high school newspaper he wrote parodies of poems and contributed humorous drawings. At Dartmouth he stretched the limits of homework, writing a "book report" of the Boston & Maine Railroad timetable as if it were a modern novel: "Chapter 18 is word for word exactly the same as Chapter 17, only it is run backwards." Ted joined the campus humor magazine, Jack-O-Lantern, where he became editor-in-chief, until removed as punishment for the drinking incident. (Prohibition was in force, not only making Ted's spree...
...created Harvard’s second goal of the period. After poking the puck away from a Dartmouth skater while in the Crimson’s zone, Chu sliced through the Big Green’s defense on the left side, while linemate and fellow sophomore Jennifer Raimondi skated down the right side...
...goal tied the game at two apiece and silenced a previously rowdy Dartmouth majority of the crowd of 1,555, while giving Harvard’s small cheering section reason to make noise...
...thought she did a great job back there. She’s just such a good, well-rounded hockey player that it’s almost seamless for her to step back and play defense,” said Dartmouth coach Mark Hudak...