Word: robinsons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fred C. Robinson, widely considered one of the world's foremost authorities on Old English, said yesterday that he communicated his decision to Harvard officials last week...
...decision "certainly had nothing to do with anything I found wrong about Harvard," said Robinson, who spent the last semester in Cambridge as a visiting professor in the English Department...
Speaking from his New Haven home, Robinson cited personal difficulties--"matters of real estate, moving, and that sort of thing"--as the primary reasons for staying where he is. "As I got closer and closer to looking at the concrete specifies of moving, it became impossible," he explained...
...overpass along the route, at every entrance and exit ramp, in rest areas and upon medians people were standing. Among the mourners were his players, present and past, including Joe Namath, Richard Todd, Lee Roy Jordan, John David Crow; and his coaching colleagues, like Bud Wilkinson, Darrell Royal, Eddie Robinson, Woody Hayes. "When I heard, it was like March 31, 1931," said Hayes, 69, the historian. "I was on the practice field. Someone came over to me and said, 'Rockne is dead.' Rockne was the great coach of his era; this man is the great coach of this...
...despite what they might tell you over in Robinson Hall, history doesn't always repeat itself. Like the Union Army at the Second Battle of Bull Run. Harvard reversed history and charged past the Tigers to keep the streak alive and kicking. The final score was, you guessed...