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When bids to the 1984 National Invitational Tournament (NIT) are released next Monday. McLaughlin and his crew hope to find the Crimson's name among the 32 teams who will receive invitations to the prestigious tourney...
...NIT Basketball...
...home team is favored this weekend, maybe nit's because RPI, while always dangerous on offense, occasionally lorgets how to play defense. The Engineers have recorded some interesting scores: 12-7 and 11-7 wins over Maine and Princeton, respectively and a 10-9 overtime squeaker over...
...matter of vocabulary Shakespeare's Falstaff says. "I am melancholy as a gib cat or a lugg'd bear." But Coe's Falstaff changes this to "castrated cat" (and no bear), thus running the punchy parade of six monosyllables. Coe has also seen fit to supplant wenches with daughters Nit-picking, you say? Then how about Coe's alteration of one of the most famous lines in all Shakespeare? When Prince Hal comes upon the supposedly dead Falstaff, he says. "I could have better spar'd a better man" And Coe has substituted the word lost. That's the problem...
...NIT...