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Taking advantage of B.C.'s lack of composure, the booters fought a strong, gusty wind to knock the ball around, waiting for chances, but with no result on the scoreboard...
...with a 3-3-1 record and a 3-1-1 Ivy mark that Harvard looks toward what should be two breather weeks against William and Mary and Penn. With Yale beating Dartmouth, 24-3, Saturday, the Crimson has to hope somebody can knock off the Bulldogs and The Green or the Ivy title will be safely ensconsced in New Haven before The Game. Brown, incidentally, is now 1-6, and out of everything. The loss means coach John Anderson will suffer his first losing season since coming to Providence...
...every case, something beyond physical skills seems to have been involved. Not even Jackson could swing at the first deliveries by three different pitchers and knock all three balls out of the park, as he did against Los Angeles in the game that clinched the 1977 World Series for the New York Yankees, without suspecting that his own ability had been fortified with some special momentary magic. And what about those catches that Baltimore's Brooks Robinson made at third base against Cincinnati...
Conversely, gossip seems to cherish a democratic, even subversive impulse: it likes to knock down authority a little. That is why royal families make their servants sign oaths not to write (gossip) about what goes on in the private quarters...
Sociologists should not be surprised that college lovers frequently knock each other around [Sept. 21]. A generation that feels free to cohabit at first tumescence, must feel equally free to react physically when angered...