Word: phelpses
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Deploring the "monster" of sports in America today, Richard "Digger" Phelps, former head basketball coach at the University of Notre Dame, discussed reforming intercollegiate athletics and using sports to keep children of America's cities away from drugs and violence in a speech last night at the Harvard Education Forum...
"If we don't reach...kids by the time they're 11 or 12, they're lost," Phelps said. "The students at Harvard can make a difference. If I can get 20 mentors out of here tonight, to invest five hours for five weeks, to see yourself change, then you...
The nation's third oldest college has come a long way since the day last century when townies rolled a cannon to the front of Phelps Gate and threatened to bombard the university to the ground.
"This graduate of Harvard University wrote a masterpiece which millions of ambitious men wish they had written," William Lyon Phelps, a Yale professor, wrote in 1934 in his definitive poetry anthology. "For Casey's is absolute perfection."
Teddies and corsets are also popular, especially among the male executive set. Phelps ventures a theory to explain this phenomenon: