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What the administration should do next year is force every freshman to recite "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard" at the pool before taking the swimming test. A student would just sing and then jump in and swim 50 yards. It's an easy way to knock off two birds with one stone...

Author: By John D. Solomon, | Title: 10,000 Silent Men | 10/14/1983 | See Source »

...Raymond L. Flynn will vote at 8 a.m. at the L. Street Bath House in Dorchester. Flynn spokesman Frank Costello said yesterday that the campaign has identified 35,000 possible Flynn voters and about 2000 workers will use phones and knock on doors to get out the vote. Flynn will await results at the Boston Teachers' Union hall in Dorchester...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Final Day for Some | 10/11/1983 | See Source »

...Crimson finished second in the round robin tourney of five teams. It cam from behind to knock off its UNH hosts before falling to MTT, the eventual winner in its final contest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Volleyball | 10/11/1983 | See Source »

...course, one's friends have accessible phones, a fact of which they are made more painfully aware each time there is a knock at the door...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crossed Wires | 10/7/1983 | See Source »

...eyes of the polite world, Ernest Hemingway has much to answer for. Armed with the hardest-hitting prose of the century, he has used his skill and power to smash rose-colored spectacles right & left, to knock many a genteel pretence into a sprawling grotesque. Detractors have called him a bullying bravo, have pointed out that smashing spectacles and pushing over a pushover are not brave things to do. As the "lost generation" he named* have grown greyer and more garrulous, so his own invariably disillusioned but Spartan books have begun to seem a little dated; until it began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books 1937: TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT by Ernest Hemingway | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

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