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...bullpen" is likely to be a bench near the left field line. The Eastern League has a grueling schedule, too: 40 games in 144 days, April 10 to September 1, no days off. Once in a great while a local reporter will approach Brayton, and produce a "Patrician Who Can Pitch!" story with the Harvard angle, but there's previous little attention, too. Brayton says he sends what seems like 1000 schedules to his friends, begging them to come watch him play, but sometimes there are long stretches in strangle middle-sized cities where it seems like the whole game...
Parker was standing on the pier with his back to the gray seven-in-the-morning sky that hovered on the edge of a drizzle, making a few dry, formal jokes in his New England-patrician way. After a minute or so, he moved on abruptly to the business of the day, calling out the names of the ones who would row in the first boat of four, the ones in the second boat, the unlucky ones who would have to stay behind to work on the ergometer machine. No one knows what Parker will do from...
...Commission on Extension Courses was founded in 1909-10 through the Lowell Institute, established late in the last century by the will of that peripatetic Boston patrician, John Lowell, who expressly intended that the student in the "more abstruse, erudite, and particular" courses offered need not pay a sum "exceeding the value of two bushels of wheat." Under the impetus of his descendant, Harvard's new President A Lawrence Lowell, the Commission was formed, bringing together the rich institutional resources of Boston College, Boston University, MIT, Simmons, Tufts, Wellesley and others, including the Museum of Fine Arts, to provide...
...perhaps nothing can be done about class bias in selection doctors given the present patrician control of the medical community, what then...
...been endorsed by virtually every member of the Conservatives' shadow Cabinet, as well as by hundreds of local Tory associations across Britain. But the results of the secret ballot were a shock: maverick M.P. Margaret Thatcher (see box) received 130 votes to 119 for Heath and 16 for patrician M.P. Hugh Fraser (there were eleven abstentions). After consulting with friends and political aides, Heath announced that he would not be a candidate in the second and third rounds of voting-required because Mrs. Thatcher failed by nine votes to get an absolute majority...