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...their season-opening tri-meet last fall, the Crimson harriers discovered that the faster team always wins, even when the faster team runs in the wrong direction. It seemed that two miles into the race against the powerful Providence College Friars and the Massachusetts Minutemen, the leaders, most of whom were wearing Friar jerseys, got a bit confused by the course's markings and began running a course of their own design...
Where the Friar harriers traveled was anybody's guess, but when it came to cross the finish line, there were the Providence runners in front, misdirections and all. "It set a historical precedent," McCurdy quipped. "Those guys are so damned good that they ran all the way to Boston, came back, and won anyway. It was sort of a mismatch." You might say that...
...McCurdy was especially delighted with the strong showings of McLoone and Hardin. "McLoone," he was saying to Friar coach Hanlon during the race, 'has gotten really strong over the past year; he's going to be a big help...
...other aberrations; they shocked the Victorian age while also appealing strongly to the lively pornographic and demonic subculture that flourished in London and Paris. One critic called Beardsley the "Fra Angelico of Satanism." A handsome compliment, but slightly exaggerated. He suggested an elegant imp as much as a Satanic friar...
...robbing Germany of its wealth. Within weeks after he wrote them, Luther's latest polemics were printed and circulated throughout the Holy Roman Empire. By 1521, when he was invited by Emperor Charles V to answer the charges against him at the Diet of Worms, the unknown friar had become a folk hero. There, Luther once more insisted that only Biblical authority would sway him. "My conscience is captive to the Word of God," he told the court. "I will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither honest nor safe. Here I stand, I cannot...