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...even the number of players allowed each team. Since the last contract expired in 1974, for example, the league has not contributed to the players' pension fund; they have now missed payments totaling $5 million. The players also want teams to carry more than the presently permitted roster of 43 men, so that clubs do not play short-handed when there are injuries...
...years. Nearly 6 ft. tall, bearded like the pard, and booming like a bittern, much given to fancy dress-cloaks, Carlyle-size black hats, gold earrings-he boozed and philandered his way through every level of English society. He was a licensed vertical invader, conspicuous even in the notable roster of Edwardian eccentrics that stretched from the Cafe Royal to Bloomsbury. There had of course been English bohemians before, but none had seemed so obstreperously life-enhancing as Augustus John. As Michael Holroyd observes in this superb biography, "In the public imagination he was to represent the Great Artist...
...Ginn, the soft-spoken associate director of the Office of Career Services, might not be the type of person you would expect to bemoan riflery's elimination from Harvard's roster of varsity sports. But Ginn, an ordained minister and former senior tutor of Quincy House, has even volunteered along with Coles to coach the team without pay if necessary...
...fans (tickets can run as high as $10). More important, the early games can be dangerous, injury-inducing torture for athletes forced to play hard before their bodies are ready. By last week, with the regular season still a fortnight away, the casualty list was lengthening into the roster of an all-pro team in traction. A sampling...
...course, there are a couple of out-standing proctors who do more than serve beer and play big brother. Over the years, Dean of Freshmen Burriss Young has developed somewhat of a cult around himself and his Mass Hall proctees. He reportedly gets first pick from the freshman roster in choosing the lucky few who will reside in his dorm, and there's lots of self-congratulation in Mass Hall because of this. "Burriss creates a real Old Harvard atmosphere--we were always invited to his room at night for Chinese food and worldly discussions of politics and academia," said...