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...such a flasco as this game was, it makes little sense to isolate a single factor which prevented Harvard's winning; Columbia simply had a better team. But even allowing for the Light Blue's superiority, one can still observe familiar distressing flaws in Coach Lloyd Jordan's team...

Author: By Hiller B. Zobel, | Title: Crimson Defense Attack Crumbled Before Columbia | 10/8/1951 | See Source »

Perhaps the best course for Harvard to take is to completely drop football. You will at least be sure of not getting into any more embarrassing situations like the Stanford flasco. Norman L. Van Patten Herkeley, Calif...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Statesmanship . . . . . . . and Sportsmanship | 3/2/1950 | See Source »

...being an Oriental country, we luckily have no qualms about "losing face" over a political situation. Any face that we might have saved was lost with the State Department's unprecedented white paper on China. Our Chinese policy has been a ghastly flasco, partly through our mistaken and partly beyond our control. The Communists have us just where they want us, and recognition is the best...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New China | 11/30/1949 | See Source »

...University and the City of Cambridge charged with the task of keeping highways and byways clear for the pedestrian. But, with the annual reliability of the stadium ticket crisis and the Dean's Christmas-present reminder that New Year's Day ends vacationing, the snow and slush flasco has once again come upon the Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Snow, Sidewalks, and Shovels | 1/29/1949 | See Source »

...start of the season; "we're hot," he reiterated last night. And he may be right. His charges have shattered the prognostications of all pre-season deposters, battering Navy, Army, Bowdoin, Wosleyan, and Amherst by substantial scores. They have sluffed off the stigma of last year's flasco season which found them bouncing around in the league cellar, unimpressive and untouted, and have forced Hub scribes to re-upholster their stock of Crimson tennis epithets with rubrics of enthusiasm and praise...

Author: By Rubric J. Shortshot, | Title: Five Straight Victories Put Netmen Near Top | 4/28/1948 | See Source »

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