Word: evens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been playing baseball in Thousand Oaks for a little while when my folks decided to start me in football," Casto says. "My first practice was just horrible. I didn't even know what a football...
...Even if the quarterback doesn't have his best day against Yale, the sporting season will not end for St. John. As starting shortstop on the baseball team for three years (.239 last year) he will return to the diamond again this spring. St John has been performing this double since his days at Horace Greeley High in his home town Chappaqua...
...discipline and order of the scientific camp. The real cause of the decline no doubt lies well beyond Harvard, in the steady evolution of America away from Europe and the apparently terminal crisis of European culture, and it will not be reversed by changes in teaching policy. But even allowing for those larger forces, I don't think Harvard does a very good job of presenting the non-scientific culture of Europe to its undergraduates...
...what follows I shall refer mainly to artistic culture and what is required to understand it. Similar, and even more serious criticisms could be made concerning the treatment given to Intellectual History and other elements of European culture...
...less said the better. Apart from the very competent student orchestras who provide an audible museum of long-dead and mostly romantic composers, the picture is dismal. I attended a number of undergraduate theatricals and they were all terrible. The Lampoon and the Advocate are significantly worse than even most English university papers (and they are pretty bad!). Journalism on the other hand, which requires a mentality antithetical to that of the creative artist, flourishes. The Carpenter Center has made a noble attempt to get the visual arts in by the back door, but it founders because of the usual...