Word: mentor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Barnaby reasons that Navy plays three of its four toughest opponents--Army, Princeton, and Harvard--at home, while the Crimson this year plays three of its four--Princeton, Penn, and Navy--away. The Crimson mentor doubts that Navy is a better team and cites Harvard's 9-0 win at Cambridge last year and the fact that the Crimson won where the Midshipmen lost, at Philadelphia, though the last is a shaky support. Further evidence is that Earl beat Harvard's Rick Sterne at Annapolis but lost in an equally close five-game tournament match on a neutral New York...
...time between straight history and philosophy of science. (He also holds an appointment in the History of Science Department and is chairman of the Committee on Physics and Chemistry, a small department which graduates proportionately more summas than any other in the college.) Holton's Harvard Ph.D. advisor and mentor, Nobel laureate P. W. Bridgman '04, made some of the same combinations. "He showed me that you can be both, that physics can be a basis for philosophy," Holton recalls. Holton's own field is an area of physics which has relatively fewer researchers than nuclear physics, and it attracted...
...would be nicer to break in his new team a little more slowly, and agrees that Harvard would be better equipped to tackle the big boys later in the season. "But it will provide a good indication of what kind of team we have right away," muses the Crimson mentor, fearing...
...slowed down to let me off, my Mississippi mentor left me with a last word of etymological mysticism: "Just so you can see some of the connections I'm talkin' about, look at the similarities between the Jewish race, and nigras and the orientals. Look at the words Judah, Buddha, and Voodah." (Voodoo with a heavy southern slur.) "Doesn't that suggest something?" he hinted. "Now you see why I say David Ben-Gurion is a Zen-Buddhist...
...emotion registered on the fighter's coffee-colored face. Blacksmith's arms folded across his chest, the giant looked impassively at his tubby little mentor and sighed: "Yessir, Mr. Benbow, yessir...