Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dartmouth's varsity basketball team exploded for 13 straight points midway through the second half Saturday night in Hanover against weak rebounding and poor shooting by the Crimson squad. Harvard never recovered from that onslaught and lost...
...Vietnam one reads that many lives are lost through the ambush of patrols. These occur because troops stick to roads and trails-i.c., perhaps one percent of land surface. In Ranger training one learns to navigate the other nineteen percent of territory, by night. The roads and trails of modern university education are its reading lists; the conformity of its scholarship, its ambushes. I would like to give the student intellectual "Ranger training...
...encyclopedias are intellectual treasure troves. Today one can buy second hand an 11th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, published in 1910, for $30-50. Written by a generation of gentlemen scholars that possessed a literary taste we have lost, it presents all of science, medicine, history, geography, and the disciplines of the day in 40 million words. Imagine that in 2030, it will be possible to read an encyclopedia of 1970 with as much critical detachment as we today can bring to bear on one of 1910 ! Imagine that we could devise an education today that could cultivate now such...
...prospects this season are no better. Most of the starting team has graduated. and Cornell has lost its only match of the season, 5-0, to Western Ontario...
...last time Army swam in the IAB. the outcome was particularly disappointing for Harvard. The Cadets were ahead by six points with only the freestyle relay left, so the winner of the event would win the meet. The Crimson's Bill Shrout lost by a foot on the final leg, enabling Army to extend its streak. It row numbers six consecutive victories...