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...President Lowell's innovations were contagious, the football team, with its new fisher-Daley stratagems, bared its muscles and thrashed hapless Middlebury College by 68 to 0 for the largest Harvard score since 1891. Undergraduate jubiliation, however, slowly died and turned to dismay as Holy Cross, Dartmouth and Princeton drubbed the Crimson on successive weekends. In the gloom overemphasis in college football. Mother Advocate, sensing crusade in the making, trudged a few yards up Plympton Street to borrow the cudgel. "Football" she said in her October issue, "may actually become professional...
...mother, who "once distressed a couple of stately guests in her father's home by descending the front stairs in her dressing gown, her hair tumbling and her eyes staring, to announce that she had escaped from the attic, where she was kept because of her ardent and hapless love for Mr. Briscoe, the postman...
...something new: "It negates the existence of God ... advocates a Godless society. As a Christian, I cannot fathom the depth of the spiritual emptiness of living under such a kind of society." Stalin's Russia, the letter continued, is "a ruthless form of tyranny perpetrated upon a hapless people." Even when the party line says to dissemble, Communists do not usually talk like this. What was going...
...Hapless members of this overflow must descend to the bottom of Fogg, seat themselves in the cramped and uncomfortable chairs, and adjust their eyes to the miniscule candlepower developed by the room's scanty and misdirected illumination. This last adjustment is the most difficult, and the delay caused by all the squinting and straining required is a harsh and unnecessary burden, especially for those in courses like Humanities I where each question on a three-hour exams needs three hours to write an adequate answer...
...deny these groups the right to protest, nor the legality of their methods so long as there is no violence. Sign waving is no crime, nor is plodding to and fro before some hapless theater. But their conception of tolerance, and of how to attain it, is no less disturbing for its legality...