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COLGATE at PRINCETON--The Tigers finally got it together last Saturday. Against Colgate today they'll probably be unraveled again. Colgate 21, Princeton 10. Last week: Three right, one wrong (.750). Season: 19 right, three wrong (.864) Season minus Harvard games: 17 right, one wrong (.944). See you around oblivion, sports...
...Every milieu made its own contribution. The fashion industry bestowed the miniskirt, musicians drummed up acid rock, drugs brought their own cults etc. etc. In retrospect, these symbols elicit smiles--even laughs--of recognition from those who participated in, and watched their rises to popularity, and subsequent plummets to oblivion. Still, they deserve sober contemplation. The apolitical, self-absorbed demeanor of many members of the present generation decrees that these social signposts be regarded as fads. Such a viewpoint belittles the cumulative impact of these Sixties trademarks. They exist now only in our memories, yet, at that time...
...bury this man in oblivion once and for all, or send him to the ninth circle of the Inferno, where Dante might have reserved a niche...
Senior track captain Jeff Campbell penciled in another stellar performance on his four-year resume, setting a meet record in the GBC's with a 4:04.1 mile. The fledgling--or rather, once-fledgling--women's track team barreled out of oblivion with a pair of tri-meet victories...
...superfluous -only to watch her turn up 700 pages later as someone essential to the denouement. Character B would be discarded, then put quickly back when it was obvious that B was the motivation behind C, who was so important that he could not conceivably be strong-armed into oblivion. "It was the same trouble with everyone I tried to get rid of," Raven complains. "They all kept pushing themselves back in again for seemingly ungainsayable reasons...