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Roberts led the Ivy League in yards-gained-by-rushing last season and is rated by many Eastern sportswriters the equal of Cornell's Jeff Fleischmann or Army's Gill Stephenson. A 195-pound senior, Roberts set an all-time Dartmouth record for yards gained in a season last year as he carried for 698 yards, an average of 5.5 yards per try. Hampered by injuries during the first part of this season, Roberts is in good shape and ready to go today...
Supervised sex for students was the proposition of Wisconsin University sociology professor Howard B. Gill. Gill advised the university to set up benches along the wooded shores of Lake Mondota for "love making under reasonable supervision...
...Trouble of One House, by Brendan Gill. An ironic first novel about a woman who loved others so truly that they couldn't help resenting her (TIME...
...Elizabeth died of cancer, all the people she loved rushed at her as much for vengeance as for grief, almost like wolves into the circle of a dying fire that had drawn them yet filled them with fear. In a fitful half-light of awareness, the characters of Brendan Gill's soft-moving, almost plotless novel rip tooth & nail at the memory of Elizabeth-at each other for possession of it, and finally each at himself in remorse for the dried smallness of his own loveless heart...
...last 14 years Brendan Gill has been writing for The New Yorker, contributing deft stories and profiles, well-considered book reviews, and items for "The Talk of the Town" section. At 36, he is starting later than a lot of this year's first novelists, but evidently not because he has wasted time. In The Trouble of One House, his storytelling method, an indirect, impressionistic one with something of the quality of Virginia Woolf's, takes him precisely where he wants...