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Abbot on his course of study and its future: “Then I feel as if I were a fool to incur such a debt and undergo so much anxiety of mind just to become a rhymester and second-rate poet. I get disheartened and feel tempted to give up the scheme of education; to enter some active business, and throw all my literary tastes to the dogs...
Don’t let the score fool you—though the No. 21 Harvard men’s tennis team defeated No. 37 Northwestern by a neat 7-0 count, the team’s Valentine’s Day trip to the Midwest could have been a heartbreaker. Trailing by early breaks in five of the six singles matches, the Crimson had to regroup and rally for the impressive victory...
...mentioned in a conversation with Ventura that he was trying to decide whether to go to colleg—and play hockey—at Harvard or in his native Minnesota. And it was Ventura who told the left-shot center ice-man that he was a fool not to go to Harvard if given the opportunity, just not in so many words...
...Girl, Bette Midler in The Rose) to Oscar nominations; he was the solid ground they danced on. The stage allowed him to dominate. He radiated silky malevolence in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker, a tonic cynicism in Simon Gray's Butley, a charming naivete in Turgenev's Fortune's Fool. Bates' brilliance was too often taken for granted. His absence leaves a profound hole in our theater and film life...
...Midler in The Rose) to Oscar nominations; he was the solid ground they danced on. The stage allowed him to dominate. He radiated silky malevolence in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker, a tonic cynicism in Simon Gray's Butley, a charming naiveté in Ivan Turgenev's Fortune's Fool. Bates' brilliance was too often taken for granted. His absence leaves a profound hole, an ache, in our theater and film life. -By Richard Corliss...