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...Last week was published a superb volume by a member of our generation. James Tate, 23, is the Yale Younger Poet for 1967, "one of the youngest" to receive that award, as his editors point out. He is unmistakably the best winner in at least five years, since Alan Dugan; and the Yale award itself, I would argue, is the most significant of our domestic awards, incapable of the antiquarianism to which Pulitzer judges seem so prone, and also (under Dudley Witts's lone and brilliant editorship) unthreatened by the coterie pressures and needs to compromise that seem to sway...
...freshman one-mile relay team--composed of John Dugan, Tom Downer, Roy Shaw, and Keith Colburn--was Harvard's only winner in the K of C's. The same four runners stand a good chance in the BAA meet Saturday...
Harvard's only victory of the night came in the freshman mile relay. John Dugan ran a great first lap to gain a lead that the other three runners--Tom Downer, Roy Shaw, and Keith Colburn--just widened...
...GREAT MUTINY, by James Dugan. The British fleet in 1797 may have seemed invincible to the French, but 50,000 of His Majesty's seamen, fed up with being underfed, underpaid and too often flogged, took control of 100 vessels and blockaded their own country in the biggest mass mutiny in maritime history...
...every kind; and a ship has the additional disadvantage of being in danger." Johnson's opinion, uttered in 1776, was still relevant in 1797. Britain's infamous press gangs roamed the country, seized any able-bodied men that caught their eyes, and flung them aboard ships that, Dugan writes, were "not built to fit men; the men were warped to fit the ship." In fact, some of them were. In many a country town, an old sailor was readily identifiable by his severe stoop, the result of spending years in the orlop (overlap) deck, which sometimes offered...