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...loco parentis regulations on personal conduct, and so forth. The campus-issue protesters share no thoroughgoing estrangement from the university comparable to the pervasive estrangement from American institutions characteristic of leftists. In their issue-to-issue involvement, the former, in the terms of Neil Smelser's model, typify a "norm-oriented" movement while the student left more nearly suggests a "value-oriented" (ideologically grounded) movement...
...effort. Steve Barber, the only established starter, is suffering from his perpetual sore arm. Wally Bunker was 10-6 last year, but his 4.28 ERA is perhaps a better indicator of what to expect. The Orioles' three World Series shutouts of the tired Dodgers were more miracle than norm for a staff that compiled only 22 complete games all year. Their relievers saved them last year, but Stu Miller is approaching 40, Moe Drabowsky's 7-0 record was preceded by a 48-81 and 4.19 ERA lifetime mark, and Dick Hall is gone. Luis Aparicio, Boog Powell, Frank Robinson...
Jacob admits that his formula is not flawless. Some crowds will not conform to the norm. If a crowd is composed primarily of women, for instance, some allowance must be made for greater hip girth. Or if the crowd is largely coeducational, he adds, it is conceivable that people might press closer together just...
...result most of these students either don't go to UHS or else quickly abandon the psychiatrist they have been assigned. Some of these students--popularly considered the alienated fringe but probably closer to the norm at Harvard than elsewhere--find sympathetic listeners in the Soc Rel Department; others have talked with Robert M. Coles, research psychiatrist...
Harvard's early spring baseball practice is something like a circus -- a lengthy, five ring circus with assorted sideshows. Down in Carey Cage, Coach Norm Shepard runs the squad through bunting drills with Iron Mike pitching machines, sliding practice in the Cage's dusty pits and hit-'em field-'em drills on the packed down gravel...