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...president is at once most likely to rely on and relax with. The two men work down the hall from each other on the first floor of Mass Hall, and Steiner has constant access to the president. He is also the unofficial captain of Bok's Jocks, a rag-tag team of Mass Hall softballers...
...this season, despite a rag-tag 5-7-3 ECAC record (8-8-3 overall), a surge of late has put the Terriers in playoff contention, and, apparently, on the road to recovery. A recent trip to Clarkson and St. Lawrence, at one time the second-and seventh-ranked teams in the country, respectively, produced a tie and a win. Earlier, B.U. knocked off Ivy Division leader Yale, 1-0, in New Haven. And last Wednesday at Walter Brown Arena against Northeastern, in probably the Terriers' finest performance of the past few seasons, they defanged the Huskies...
...first-period shorthanded goal by Mark Switaj and a third-period power play goal by Mike Ewanouski boosted the Boston College Eagles to a rag-tag, 5-2 win over Boston University in the second game of the Beanpot last night at the Boston Garden...
...Department of Athletics eventually saved face by coaxing no less than Jack Barnaby--generally acknowledged as the greatest squash coach of all time--out of retirement. Often working with inexperienced players on the men's team, Barnaby consistently caught Yale and Princeton by surprise and led his deceiving rag-tag assemblages to a string of national championships...
...parade itself, maneuvering a circuitous route through Southie's narrow and deteriorating streets, was a curious rag-tag affair composed mainly of badly coordinated local groups, political and patriotic floats, and the ever-present military contingent. Louise Day Hicks, the anti-busing Boston city councillor, led a float with signs declaring: "Hicks says South Boston is MY Roots," and "Southie is worth fighting for." Her group, ironically identifying itself as South Boston's Marshall's Youth Activities, was followed by a sound truck blurting the locally popular tune "Southie, My Home Town." Boston Mayor Kevin White did not march...