Word: hardings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Maryland, another top team in the strong southern lacrosse group, scouted the Navy game and expected an easy win when they played Harvard on Friday before 1500 people. The Crimson played its first hard checking game of the trip, however, and succeeded in losing by a more respectable score...
...education is a tricky subject for which the word "perfect" may have little meaning. The major contribution of this committee has been to present to the College community the hard, unavoidable fact that students are not taking part in their own education; the fact that much of the blame for this condition must be attributed to the College's methods--or lack of methods--of education; and to offer several suggested remedies for the situation...
Champion is hard & fast at slugging the audience. It is stunningly photographed and the pace seldom slackens. At its brilliant best in the fight scenes, which are probably the most brutally believable ever screened, Champion is equally good at creating suspense. In a chase sequence, when Midge is being cornered in an empty arena by faceless racketeers, the camera movement in & out of the vast shadowy beehive of tunnels, arcades and aisles is expertly terrifying...
...first to last, Champion is a tough-minded, penetrating character study which makes Midge neither an inhuman monster nor a whining victim of circumstances. It simply focuses a hard glare on his unreflective brutality, his arrogance and his bursts of self-interested decency. Much of its punch comes from the sensitive performances of Arthur Kennedy and Paul Stewart. Its final wallop it owes to Kirk Douglas, who fills out every corner of Kelly's unattractive pug with bulging assurance and conviction...
...lacrosse team ought to keep north of the Charles in spring vacation. It's hard enough to beat Navy and Maryland any time, but in the early spring when the southern teams have had extra practice time as well, it is plain suicide...