Word: giamatti
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yale President A. Bartlett Giamatti has made the following statement on this weekend's 100th playing of the Yale-Harvard football game...
...this one really caught my eye. The all-capitals headline read, "PRESIDENT GIAMATTI PREDICTS VICTORY"; it was printed on Yale Sports Information Office stationery...
...especially liked the line about character and a complex offense, assuming it was a tongue-in-cheek remark by a man known more as the leading member of the Eli literati than as the leading friend of Eli athletics. Unfortunately, it seemed for three quarters that Giamatti might have a serious point to make, as Yale held the Crimson multiplex to a single touchdown...
Charles Franklin Thwing (Harvard Class of 1876) once said about the two institutions that "Harvard stands as the mother of movements, and Yale as the mother of men." That epithet best sums up the comparative images from the colonial days through the Derek C. Bok-A. Bartlett Giamatti era. The older school pioneers educational reform, the younger cares about who it's educating, or so the perception goes...
...into University Hall to end the student takeover. Yale head Kingman Brewster avoided violence by stating at a press conference that Black Panthers probably could nto get a fair trial in the United States. Current Harvard President Bok has a reputation for distance from the undergraduates and political priggishness. Giamatti holds office hours and has publically denounced the Moral Majority...