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After Harvard's first three batters reached base, freshman center fielder Elizabeth Crowley picked up an RBI with a single off Tufts pitcher Tami Geanes. Jumbo left fielder Kathy Durga bungled the pick-up, bringing home the Crimson's second...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Batswomen Deal Tufts a Jumbo Defeat | 4/18/1986 | See Source »

...over the summer, I hope they [the returning players] just keep playing the way they're going to play next year, not the way everybody plays in pick-up games," he added. "The only way the Harvard team will ever be set is if they continue to work hard. So many teams just sit back and expect experience to work for them...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Wait 'Til Next Year | 3/5/1986 | See Source »

Depeche Mode's rare appearance at the Orpheum a few months back was a pretty depressing affair if you weren't looking for a high school pick-up. With most of the musical action programmed into the array of synthesizers and organs, vocalist Gore was left prancing about like a second-string Rod Stewart, with material that could never approach the Rod's exquisitely terrible haunchraunch. The rest of the band was strapped to their machinery, tapping out melodies with one, two, and sometimes even three fingers. Depeche Mode gave good beat, but in a frenetic concert atmosphere pumped...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Aural Fixations | 5/10/1985 | See Source »

...sounds like stereotyping, as might befit a director first made famous as Archie Bunker's "Meathead" son-in-law, but this flick is simply too much fun to criticize the Styrofoam characters with any relish. Those who appear in the credits with titles like "Girl in Photo." "Frat Guy," "Pick-up Driver," or "Bus Station Bum" are not characters: they are nothing more than props for Reiner's comedic mind, no realer than a red nose or floppy feet...

Author: By Clark J. Freshman, | Title: Meathead Strikes Again | 3/22/1985 | See Source »

Upon request, checks can be had he has buy of the six Harvard Coop locations for pick-up or mailed to a student's address at an earlier date if necessary. Graduates or students taking time off can obtain their checks in this way. The cashier's office will make three attempts to reach the owner of an unclaimed check and will, hold the checks for three years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coop Announces 9.9% Rebate; Return Is Highest in History | 9/28/1984 | See Source »

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