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Yale turned in a healthy showing in the sprint events, nabbing firsts in the hurdles and the dash, but it was the gentlemen in red who dominated most of the middle-distance running events...
When Mary Lyon founded her school for girls in 1837, she avoided the word college because the "benevolent gentlemen" whose support she needed might not approve. Mount Holyoke "seminary" eventually did become a college, and several gentlemen became its president. Now, after 41 years, Holyoke is again to be headed by a woman: Elizabeth Kennan, 39, an associate professor of history and director of medieval and Byzantine studies at Catholic University in Washington, D.C. A Holyoke alumna, Kennan believes that only in women's colleges can women develop the strength to deal with the "crosscutting responsibilities of family life...
...Ladies and gentlemen," the intercom Li crackles, "out of the left side of the cabin are the remains of the Japanese Imperial Fleet." Banking sharply into the sunset, the Air Micronesia 727 circles the Truk lagoon. Coral reefs color the water in pastels of orange, yellow and green, interspersed with the darker shapes of sunken hulls. "It was on Feb. 16, 1944, that we spotted 'em," the voice continues enthusiastically. "Our fighters dive-bombed all day, and next morning when they finished mopping up, more than 60 ships were on the bottom." Only after a second turn around...
...walks over to pat a player on the back after a big play, occasionally. He is no Red Miller, to be sure. Once, when former Dallas Quarterback and Prankster Don Meredith had his teammates laughing during practice, Landry's perspective on such doings was firmly spelled out: "Gentlemen, nothing funny ever happens on the football field...
When I came to Cambridge four years ago, I was told great things about The Crimson. Gentlemen, they all turned out to be lies. Why, I became so sick and tired of reading the garbage on that paper's sports page that I even turned to The Independent once or twice...