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...hotels on search-and-scream missions. Mick Jagger was leading what appeared to be an outright insurrection. The Stones incited legitimate riots by 1965 and rarely got though more than four or five songs. Their fans either rushed the stage and destroyed their equipment or had so intimidated the hapless policemen sent to protect the performers that the power would be shut down...
...found for Ford, Kleinfelder, or Palm and athletic department standing committees will screen applicants for each position this summer. Kleinfelder's dismissal may cause even more problems for the athletic department, because during her tenure at Harvard, she has also coached the women's lacrosse team. And unlike the hapless hoop squad, the laxwomen thrived under Kleinfelder's direction, winning three Ivy championships and two Eastern titles. Kleinfelder still hasn't decided whether or not she wants to remain at Harvard in that capacity alone, but if she chooses to go elsewhere, add the women's lacrosse...
...separate entities in Vermont. It is never a good idea for someone who lives on a dirt road to get on the wrong side of the town road commissioner. So mucky can be the results that the names in the following cautionary tale have been omitted to protect the hapless. It seems that a flatlander (a non-Vermonter) moved in and stood up and spoke at his first town meeting. Not only is it impolitic and impolite for newcomers to speak before an introductory period of about five to ten years has passed, but this newcomer also complained about...
Like the unsuspecting and hapless postman, the Harvard women's lacrosse team was greeted by a terrible surprise yesterday, as Yale's pesky Bulldogs whipped the visiting Crimson, 8-7 and took a good-sized chunk out of the laxwomen's Ivy League title chances...
Webster Field was undeniably freezing but when the plate umpire announced that she had seen and shivered enough during five-and-a-third innings, both teams objected vehemently. Even the hapless Jumbos, who were losing, 15-3, refused to call it a game...