Word: perfectible
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moments after B.C.'s freshman guard Ernie Cobb had turned a perfect evening for Harvard basketball loyalists (all 23 of them) into the team's fourth consecutive defeat, Coach Tom Sanders was asked how he planned to offset the letdown which would probably ensue after his squad's emotional performance that evening...
...opposition for a while, and perhaps even to score. Joe Greene dreams about just that possibility. "I visualize techniques," he says. "Some of them are just ungodly. Run over a guy, hurdle, jump six feet, put three or four moves on him so he freezes. No flaws. Perfect push and pull on the guard, jump over the center. Another blocker, slap him aside. Block the ball when the quarterback throws it, catch it, and run 99 yards." If that's the defense, Pittsburgh shouldn't have to wait another 42 years to win a second championship...
Junior letterwinner Leonida Rasenas also enjoyed a perfect 4-for-4 outing on the mats, as did senior Celine Larkin. Freshman Susan Lambiris garnered a single match point to round out the 'Cliffe scoring...
Second-year clasher Chipman has improved vastly during the off-season, and could emerge as a leading sabre fencer in the not too distant future. Like Diaz, Chipman racked up a perfect slate, while Bierer split his remaining matches...
...elements of human activity like love and work and set out to make their refinement the good of society. But what if the will to dominate, an element present in society long before liberalism, persists? Here we meet the limits of knowledge against politics: the formation of a perfect world, like all man's "great endeavors on this earth, are condemned to incompleteness...