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...suddenly on the morning of the contest, The Game was cancelled. According to an extra edition of the Yale Daily News, 16 football players had come down with gonorrhea contracted from three Yale cheerleaders in a party after the Brown game six weeks earlier. Harvard had won by forfeit...
Seems ages ago--but it was less than 2 1/2 years--that folks were seriously debating whether The Lord of the Rings or the Harry Potter films would make the more enthralling adaptation of fantasy literature. That competition was over--declared a forfeit, really--as soon as the respective first installments appeared: the Gandalf wizard movie vanquished the Harry wizard movie in thrills and technical splendor, artistry and maturity. But in the values Hollywood understands, worldwide box-office income, the first two films from the J.K. Rowling books outperformed the first two Tolkien films, $1.84 billion to $1.78 billion. Reason...
...What could Peljto have done this year to forfeit her claim to the hardware? O! How drastically must her numbers have dropped for the two-time defending Queen of the Ivy to lose her crown!” one might...
...explore concentrations in other areas, first-year scientists are forced to forfeit scarce electives, since most introductory courses in the social sciences and humanities lie outside the Core Curriculum. Not a single government course and only a small handful of English and history courses satisfy Core requirements. In contrast, with the closer integration of the Core with science departments, prospective humanities and social science concentrators can more easily fulfill Core demands while investigating alternative concentrations...
...Crimson was forced to forfeit the two matches due to Jones’ injury and Jantzen’s decision to sit out the meet...