Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Princeton and Yale elevens reign this week over the Ivy League, each with perfect 3-0 League records. Pennsylvania and Harvard, who meet Saturday, are tied for third. League Standings Wins Losses Princeton 3 0 Yale 3 0 Harvard 2 1 Pennsylvania 2 1 Dartmouth 1 2 Brown 1 3 Columbia 1 3 Cornell...
These words of President Pusey at the opening of what promises to be the largest fund drive in Harvard history seem particularly apt. From its inception in 1636 to today's announcement, Harvard has been attempting to perfect itself, sometimes in one direction, sometimes in another, sometimes actively, sometimes not. But in the sum total of these movements lies the story of Harvard's growth from a small college in a cow pasture into one of the great universities of the modern world...
...least troublesome of stars. Impresarios who have broken their hearts and their pocketbooks getting her signature do not have to worry about further dickering, and rarely about temperamental outbursts. Callas arrives on time at rehearsals ; at recording sessions she doggedly repeats passages until they are as perfect as possible, gives freely of her full voice and never seems to require any warmup time...
...Crimson played near-perfect ball defensively for the first three periods, and dominated offensive play throughout. The line, however, was still unsharp in its play making and too slow to get away many shots. Dartmouth's goalie, highly-rated Randy Malin, was forced to expend an effort only once in the game...
...defensive lapse on two missed tackles let Dartmouth's outside right Jim Kennedy get to a lose ball. Kennedy fired a perfect shot to the left hand corner which completely beat goalie Finkelstein for the winning margin. Inside right Bob Googins rubbed salt in the wound with a final goal 15 seconds before the game ended...