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Epeeman Robert Kaplan gained the decisive fourteenth victory against Brandeis, keeping out of reach of his opponent, then thrusting his blade forward when the opponent overcommitted himself...
Lest the reader get the wrong impression, Mandelbaum was not the only Harvard fencer on the strip last night. Of the others, sophomore epeeman Robert Kaplan came through in the clutch defeating Criss Morkawa 5-0 to garner the match-clinching fourteenth bout for the Crimson...
Martz, the Chicago Cubs' first pick in the 1977 draft, picked up his fourteenth win days later in a 5-4 squeaker over Southern Illinois. Jim Lewis, the Gamecocks' number two hurler, was another story. Snubbed in the major league draft, Lewis took out his frustrations on Cal State, going the distance in winning...
...ceiling of the large room to the right of the courtyard inspired art historian Millard Meiss, during his brief term as director of the Fogg, to arrange the entire space in a medieval mode, mounting Romanesque capitals on low semi-detached pedestals projecting from the wall. The Fogg's fourteenth century Italian paintings were arranged in the areas between columns and framed by medieval chests set below. Undaunted by tradition, Slive and Freedberg replaced the small medieval works with larger seventeenth century canvases--a group which is better fitted to the room and more representative of the Fogg's strengths...
...cousin Gwen Raverat in a family memoir describes Darwin on his fourteenth birthday "lying with his long Etonian legs on the sofa in a negligent, grown-up attitude." While at Eton, Darwin engaged in quoting contests to see who knew Pickwick Papers the best. He practiced for these contests by seeing if he could continue out loud once he reached the bottom of a page. Certainly, Darwin would have ascribed to the Duke of Wellington's statement that "the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton," for he considered the English public school, as epitomized...