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Concerning the potentiality of his force, Barnaby commented, "We have quite a bit of material but all very green." He added that the aggregation shows a great deal of promise and skill even though it has no outstanding stars. Among the men expected to be mainstays, only one, Dave Shepard, has played on the Varsity before, although both John Knowles and Milton Heath were on last years' informal group. The squad also possesses Adam Foster, with pre-war Freshman team experience; Parker Francis, a senior of considerable ability; and a promising sophomore, Bill wightman, son of Mrs. G. W. Wightman...
HOLDFAST GAINES (647 pp.)-Odell Shepard and Willard Shepard-Macmillan...
...Odell Shepard, Connecticut scholar, politico and Pulitzer Prize biographer (Pedlar's Progress: The Life of Bronson Al-cott), has collaborated with his son Willard Shepard on this outsized (250,000 words) chunk of historical fiction, in which almost everything happens except the storming of the Alamo and the rape of Lucrece. Holdfast Gaines, despite his name, is a Mohegan Indian, in the direct line of the great King Uncas himself. He is a nephew of Samson Occum-whom Dartmouth men will remember as an Indian protege of Eleazar Wheelock, Dartmouth's pious founder. Nathan Hale is Holdfast...
Holdfast roams all over the map during the years 1780-1815, getting nowhere in particular but affording Authors Shepard a gaudy chance to go all-out on sea fights, land fights, Indian massacres, pirates, poisoned daggers and messages scrawled in invisible...
...overwhelming number of Harvard men flock to the dorms on Shepard Street each night. This is proof that too much is said about Harvard's supposedly unpleasant attitude towards Radcliffe. What is of more importance and less discussed is the girls' apparently unhealthy attitude about...