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Proud Traditions. As Salutin's play suggests, there was a time when Les Canadiens worked as a symbol for Quebec spirit. The French of Canada, proud of their traditions and staunch in their Roman Catholicism, felt repressed by Anglo-Saxon Protestantism. In 1955, when Maurice Richard, the great Montreal forward, was suspended by Clarence Campbell, the league president, for scuffling with an official, French fans smashed shop windows along Rue Ste. Catherine. Although this was a melee, not a rational debate, popular sociologists went as wild as the fans. Les Canadiens, they suggested, were not merely a hockey team...
...STEVE SAXON...
...that instead of being given an opportunity to learn and participate freely within the mainstream of society, as it was called, they were being asked to abandon, disassociate themselves from all that had formed and nourished them, to abandon all that for the dubious privilege of becoming an Afro-Saxon (a Black-white man.) And second class Black-white men at that. They began to distrust their "special admissions" and to feel that they were doing nothing but assuaging the white man's communal guilt. When, during the first two weeks of school, most of the conversation centered around...
...upon misrepresentation. Furthermore, this argument is difficult to take seriously in that no ethnic, racial or regional group in the nation is fairly represented at Harvard with regard to socioeconomic status. One would, for example, be hard put to find a group more misrepresented at Harvard than white, Anglo-Saxon Protestants. Contrary to the impression that might be gained by glancing through a Harvard Yearbook, the typical American WASP does not reside in Oyster Bay, N.Y. or Lake Forest, Illinois. Yet surely the Crimson does not mean to include WASPs in its definition of minorities deserving special University recruitment attention...
...Mike Lynch field goal that sealed things up, coming four minutes into the fourth quarter and giving Harvard a 30-14 bulge. Thoughts of an amazing comeback were further squelched when replacement quarterback Tim Davenport speared Steve Saxon in the corner of the endzone four minutes later with an eight-yard dart to close out the scoring...