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Harvard's varsity soccer team is seeking its fifth consecutive Ivy victory and its eighth win of the season this morning at 10:30 a.m. against Princeton on the Tiger's Poe Field...
...Baltimore, there was even more melancholy vandalism. Upon a recent midnight dreary, someone entered the Westminster Presbyterian Church graveyard and pried an 18-in. circular bronze medallion sculpture of Edgar Allan Poe's head from the shaft marking his grave. Stéphane Mallarmé was being too optimistic when he wrote The Tomb of Edgar Poe: "Let this granite at least forever be a boundary/To the foul flights of scattered blasphemy in the future...
...Goodwin, nonetheless, alcohol is not just a harmless stimulus to creativity. He points to the obvious fact that a man may use it self-destructively, as did Fitzgerald. In such cases, as Baudelaire said about Edgar Allan Poe, alcohol becomes a weapon "to kill something inside himself, a worm that would...
...teams were blessed with more and more All-Ivy selections each season. There were runners like Bill Grana, Bobby Leo, Vic Gatto, and Ray Hornblower: defense-men like Don Chiofaro, Dave Poe, John Tyson, John Hoffman, and John Emery...
...Weinstein was West's real name. His father was a wealthy New York building contractor and the boy was spoiled rotten. He cut school several days a week and lounged around, soaking his head in delusions of athletic grandeur and working up torture projects in the style of Poe. In ninth grade he flunked everything, after the tenth he dropped out of high school. He entered Tufts College on a forged transcript, and when he was busted out a couple of months later he forged another and was admitted to Brown as a second-term sophomore...