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...start of last season, there was a dearth of familiar faces guarding the blueline, but by the end of the winter, there were few problems. "Last year we only had one defenseman that we knew about for sure," Cleary says, referring to Fusco. "But I think at the end, our defense played as well as anyone...
...HAVEN, Conn.--There were no surprises Saturday as the Harvard men's soccer team dropped its fifth Ivy League contest in seven outings this season, falling to Yale, 1-0, with a dearth of offense and plenitude of defense that has characterized the booters' efforts all year...
Careful reasoning and analysis. Calling the dearth of this "the most serious defect of undergraduate education everywhere," Bok said the College should do more to improve students' reasoning abilities. The undergraduate curriculum should include more opportunities for active student involvement--which sections and tutorials provide more than do large lectures, Bok said...
...veterans on the team. Larry Brown was somewhat of a celebrity--the night he passed the 1,000 yard mark in rushing for the season was more widely known and toasted in Washington circles than former President Nixon's infamous "Saturday Night Massacre." And there was never a dearth of stories about how George Allen was creating a winning team out of the well-known "Over the Hill Gang," or how poorly he and Cooke were getting along. (Allen, as almost every football fan in the country knows, will not coach a team unless he has total control over...
...kind of yardstick, the Faculty might as well not bother to clamber up the steps of University Hall to convene at all. Members of the Faculty Council, which simplifies and then forwards proposals to the full Faculty, are predicting that 1981-82 could be unusual for the very dearth of controversial issues that could confront the Faculty. Though the year is bound to contain some surprises--like the fairly sudden emergence of last year's technology transfer issue--the preliminary Faculty agenda looks about as empty as Ronald Reagan's White House in August...