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...Michael K. Savit...
...less than three weeks Michael K. Savit will have penned his last piece as an undergraduate sportswriter for The Crimson. This may seem trite amidst review sections and all-nighters in the dining hall, and probably will continue to seem so until you pick up The Crimson at breakfast next September and find little to refresh...
Because if anything else, Savit was refreshing. In the fairly predictable world of Harvard sports it was safe to assume that a Savit account, a Savit insight, a Savit impression would always range far from predictability. Off-base sometimes, but ultimately he would always seem to put college athletics in the right perspective for his readers...
...mostly, there were the lines, clever at first, outrageous in the end, that vaulted Savit to popularity and subtle celebration even outside the gates of Winthrop House...
...Savit called the setting for last, year's 9-7 football loss to Cornell "weather not fit for otters." He credited an overtime hockey win against Princeton two winters ago to Morris E. (Moe) Mentum. He wrote up a water polo match his sophomore year to the tune of Longfellow's Midnight Ride of Paul Revere." He had Bob Baggott diving on fumbled juic glasses, Billy Cleary saying nothing in print, an entire column on beans, and all those letters home to Mom (P.S., "Please tell Jeffrey to accept my collect phone calls...