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Young said he was "very pleased" with the drills, but Frank Packer '81 said yesterday the drills were "sort of needless--half the people didn't come...
...Needless to say, Tuke didn't quit. An all-state safety out of St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati, he started for the 1974 freshman team at safety and was second on the team in tackles. His eventual shift to adjuster came in the middle of his sophomore year and last year he backed up Lou Rice while seeing considerable action on special teams...
...Needless to say, the pressure is on the Harvard defense to contain the UMass attack and give its new-faced offense as many chances as possible. Captain Steve Kaseta noted that "UMass thinks that we won't be up for the game because of Timmy's injury. They're wrong...
...dispensation of Providence, I happened to make a drive--all too frequently failing since of repetition in my 32 years of golf--and the ball went sailing over the embankment of the railroad track...this then having been the first ball ever struck on the Shinnecock Hills. It is needless to recall here the experience of thousands, and perhaps hundreds of thousands, of American golfers since 1891 when I say that I at once became a convert to, and a devoted follower of, the game...
...anti-discrimination war. The feminist movement's drive to desex nouns and pronouns was definitively dramatized by the 1976 case of Ms. Ellen Cooperman, who unsuccessfully sought to change her legal name to Coo-perperson. But God only knows-if, indeed, He or She does-how much needless fear of words has been generated by the campaign to cleanse public language of slander, denigration and defamation. It has obviously reduced the use of contemptuous epithets, but it has also unnecessarily inflamed some tender sensibilities. Take the heartfelt claim that all Italians, and not merely an outlaw underground, tend...