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Despite the inconclusive reading on the scoreboard, the game was far from fruitless: Harvard found out it has a pretty good football team. There will be eight more opportunities to prove this.TOM STEPHENSON (88) snags MIKE BASSETT's fourth period pass for a gain that didn't quite make a touchdown...
...climbing pheasant or a gliding goose, a dove is best downed by leading it, then firing at the spot where bird and shot should collide. But the dove is an artful dodger, apt to tumble or leap in the air just as the gun is fired. After many a fruitless hour, some hunters begin firing vaguely in the neighborhood of the doves, hoping for a stray hit. Whole boxes of shells can be fired without ruffling a feather...
These Sino-Soviet duels around the world, as much as the fruitless talks in Moscow, have shattered any prospect of early reconciliation. Now that the Moscow meeting has collapsed, both sides in effect concede that what began as a charade of unity has become a Communist nightmare...
...future of student government at the College may well depend on the actions of the year-old Harvard Council on Undergraduate Affairs as it meets tonight to elect a new slate of officers. Under wise and capable leadership, the HCUA has for the past year intentionally shunned fruitless controversy or political maneuvering, and instead sought out the only practical course open to student government in a community that is notoriously apathetic about student government...
This style set the "basic potential of dramatic expression in music" which all later composers accepted, Schrade claimed. He called Gluck's attempts to reform this style "fruitless discussion," and said that in Wagner's music dramas "unbridled passion still remained the basis." If Mozart did not write a "full-blown" tragedy in Don Glovanni, the opera at least "betokened the features of tragedy" because "no sharp bound can be set where comedy ends and tragedy begins...