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When parents finally arrived to cart home their progeny at summer's end, they didn't immediately appreciate the value of staying up all night to watch the sun rise before launching into pre-breakfast Brandenburg Concertos. Other things parents didn't dig: hazy evidence that junior might have spent most evenings with a bed mate and explanations for why the Kenne police might be calling to follow up on the night John forgot his driver's license. But the best way to give the old folks a chuckle and a sense of the sprit of Pear Valley...
...Crimson couldn't overtaked the bulldogs even when two Yale starters--sophomore forward Gerry Parker and junior forward Steve Leondis--fouled out of the game midway through the second half. But Harvard coach Frank McLaughlin said, "When a team gets into foul trouble and the other guys dig down real well, that's a credit to them...
...federal aid to students, which now runs to $50 million a year, to be cut by about half. The University of Texas at Austin asked 10,000 recipients of financial aid what they would do without federal support. Says Financial Aid Officer Pat Korbus: "Some parents said they would dig into their savings or retirement accounts. Others indicated their children would have to drop out or go to school part-time...
Though their past is Iummous the Quakers could not dig up enough personnel Saturday to give the second-best team in the country an even halfway-competitive match. Harvard turned its back on remembrances of things past by compromising the Quakers...
...scoring dearth, when they turned every goalie who faced the squad into an All-American Just as one goal often leads to another. Fusco points out, a missed opportunity just increases the frustration "A lot of times when you're not scoring you tend to stand around and not dig in the corners," he said. "But I think we're out of that...