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Entering play this evening, the Crimson trails No. 2 Cornell (20-4-3, 16-2-2) in the races for both the Ancient Eight and ECAC regular-season titles, with the Big Red all but assured of capturing the latter. Only an unlikely zero-point weekend for Cornell at St. Lawrence and Clarkson, both of whom Harvard downed last weekend, combined with a pair of Crimson wins would deny the Big Red its third Cleary Cup in four years...
Both sides faced Maine and Boston College—Cornell once, Harvard twice—but the Big Red began its year against Army, a game in which McKee faced a mere seven shots, stopping six, in 50-plus minutes. He subsequently faced Sacred Heart and Canisius, the latter of which managed just 13 shots on McKee’s goal, all of which he turned aside. Against BC and Maine, though, McKee allowed three goals on both occasions...
With just four games remaining, the Crimson would need to go 3-1 to ensure the former, and at least that, if not 4-0, to clinch the latter...
...Boone’s deceased son, Israel, which provides a startlingly graphic yet real and passionate description of the way a person like Boone might react to seeing his young son’s buzzard-ridden carcass. Despite the inherently unfamiliar nature of the work, set roughly in the latter half of the 18th century, the elements of human nature are stunningly resonant with the contemporary reader...
Entering play this evening, the Crimson trails No. 2 Cornell (20-4-3, 16-2-2) in the races for both the Ancient Eight and ECAC regular-season titles, with the Big Red all but assured of capturing the latter. Only an unlikely zero-point weekend for Cornell at St. Lawrence and Clarkson, both of whom Harvard downed last weekend, combined with a pair of Crimson wins would deny the Big Red its third Cleary Cup in four years...