Word: m
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...injustice. It's sad when Holy Cross loses a football game, because it means that they've just lived the whole week before for nothing. A three-man Holy Cross contingent sat next to me in the press box Saturday, and I really felt guilty that Harvard won. "I'm not hanging around that campus tonight," one of them said. "It'll be horrible there...
...football changed so that it isn't an inter-collegiate sport. The faculty was concerned, these scribes told me that Holy Cross would earn a reputation based solely on athletic prowess and not academics. This was not a good image to project the faculty thought, though I'm sure the students aren't too bothered by it. Naturally, they are bothered by the suggestion that football be de-emphasized. It's like telling Haystacks Calhoun he can't wrestle anymore, or worse that he can't eat anymore. What else is there? But at least it didn't look...
...have been there about 90 seconds when a guy sits down opposite me. I look up. He's a young guy, maybe a sophomore. I turn back to the magazine. The guy introduces himself. I'm not even looking at him, I'm reading about Jerry Kramer, but he introduced himself anyway. I look up. He's probably a sophomore and doesn't have any friends in the House. I think to myself. He's probably a nice guy. I tell him my name...
...m flattered. Maybe the guy is all right. I look back at the magazine, but he keeps right on going...
...What are you looking at?" he says. I realize I'm staring...