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Miller also told the audience of more than 20 members of congress that they are entering the “super-pit of solicitation” and that they must get their priorities straight...
...course, the Crimson will have several opportunities to rectify all these oversights in the weeks to come. Five of Harvard’s next eight matchups pit the squad against opponents currently ranked—No. 11 Vermont, No. 10 Maine and No. 15 Northern Michigan, No. 13 Colgate and No. 12 Cornell—with a possible showdown with No. 1 Minnesota on Dec. 23 in the final round of the Dodge Holiday Classic thrown in as an added bonus...
...brisk tone of Caley's journal offers little praise for his surroundings. The names he bestows along the way - the Devil's Wilderness, Dismal Dingle (a valley "like a coal-pit"), Dark Valley - hint at his impressions. When his men spotted two crows, they joked that the birds must be lost, "or else they would never stop in such a place as this." Climbing in the heat through one windless gully after another, pushing through prickly scrub amid leeches, flies and furious ants, sweaty and smeared with charcoal from burned trees, it's understandable why he spent little time...
Just which forces take hold--the optimistic or the pessimistic--will start to emerge in the weeks ahead. But already the prospects pit hope against harsh reality...
Fitzpatrick has gone from being a high school senior without a single I-A offer to a reportedly fourth-round—or higher—draft prospect, with pit-stops in the Harvard record books in between...