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...Crimson editors began to form their own teams, taking on all comers. The Board voted to establish a Crimson baseball team, and to offer "cups to be played for by competing nines." The 1906 history reprints a New York Tribune report of October 11, 1885, which says: "The Harvard scratch races were rowed this afternoon over the one-fourth mile course in front of the Harvard Boat House, Charles River.... (In the first heat) The Crimson crew won easily in 1 min. 39 1 2 s. The second heat of the Fours between The Crimson crew and the Four...
Following this pattern, President Bok said today he will meet with the Faculty Council next week to "discuss the matter from scratch...
Osano started almost from scratch after World War II and built a land-hotel-transportation empire worth an estimated $1 billion. Now he is expanding his foothold in the U.S., where he is already the biggest individual Japanese investor. In early 1973 he will begin building a 43-story hotel in Los Angeles with $20 million of his own funds...
...nature of the parrot, do you see? The structure represents a common mentality, and then the sensuous part, the parrot, is a criticism of the structure, right?" Stripped of its jargon, this is a not very surprising revelation that parrots are not perches. But at least one could scratch the parrot, which is not the case with more conceptualized works like Mel Bochner's recent piece at the Sonnabend Gallery: The Seven Properties of Between, 1971-72. It consisted of leaves of paper on which were laid stones, labeled A, B, X and Y, with such observations written below...
Some American place names have a unique resonance about them-places like Maggie's Nipples, Wyo., or Greasy Creek, Ark., Lickskillet, Ky., or Scroungeout, Ala. Collectors of Americana also savor Braggadocio, Mo., the Humptulips River in Washington, Hen Scratch, Fla., Dead Irishman Gulch, S. Dak., Cut 'N Shoot, Texas, Helpmejack Creek, Ark., Bastard Peak, Wyo., Goon Dip Mountain, Ark., Tenstrike, Minn., Laughing Pig, Wyo., Two Teats, Calif., or Aswaguscawadic...