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...sellout crowed of 39,830 spectators remained silent as Allard got off a desperate toss to Farrell. The senior tight end lunged forward but could not grasp Allard's offering before it hit Michie Stadium's artificial surface to give Army...
...boil over at 43:05 when they converted on a long throw in into Harvard penalty box a play they had been rehearsing for most of the match Fullback Mike Byrne hoisted a loss from the left touchline that Crimson goalkeeper Phil Coogan let slip out of his grasp Forward Jon Farrow was in the proverbial tight place and nodded home a goal that rousted his team mates out of hibernation...
...Church's concern for family finances, the four returned Harvard missionaries interviewed regret the abbreviation of the mission. Every one stressed the difficulty of learning a new language in just a few months. "We don't get very much in two months. I'm afraid. You get a basic grasp on the grammar, and some vocabulary," says John Finlayson '84, who fulfilled his mission in Tokyo. John Beck '83, who was located in Kyushu, Japan, adds, "I was there for two months before I could understand the Japanese when they spoke...
...idea that education provides better jobs promises practical rewards for both the student and the society that trains him, but it can leave him undernourished in the possibilities of life away from work. The idea that education means the acquisition of a cultural heritage does give the student some grasp of that heritage, but it can also turn into glib superficialities or sterile erudition. The idea that education consists mainly of training the mind does provide a method for further education, but it can also make method seem more important than knowledge. So can the idea that education...
...efforts at horizon-expansion culminate in a mealy-mouthed dpiphany in a drugstore, where a kind counter woman revives him after he faints, moving him to conclude, "There are some people in this world who don't need courses in Social Relations to enable a firm, shrewd grasp of various social and psychological particulars...