Word: skating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whole-souled character that let him absorb rebuffs and carry on with total concentration. The son of a Philadelphia teacher of penmanship, he whisked through school so fast that he had an A.B. in 1861 at the age of 17. He loved to hunt, fish, swim, sail and skate, and he was good at all these sports. But he loathed the fusty Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where pupils spent week after week copying classical statues. To get a firsthand knowledge of anatomy, he took courses at the Jefferson Medical College, for a time even considered becoming a doctor. Instead...
...other words, my prejudice is for a Harvard College with a certain range and mixture and diversity in its student body--a college with some snobs and some Scandanavian farm boys who skate beautifully and some bright Bronx premeds, with some students who care passionately if unwisely (but who knew about editing the Crimson or beating Yale, or who have an ambition to run a business and make a million, or to elected to public office, a college which not all the students have looked on school just as preparation for college, college as preparation for grade school and graduate...
...asked for a College "with some snobs and some Scandinavian farm boys who can skate beautifully and some bright Bronx pre-meds, with some students who care passionately about editing the Crimson or beating Yale ... Won't even our top-one-per-cent be better men and better scholars for being part of such a college...
...Flukes. Under the N.H.L.'s peculiar play-off rules, designed to boost team treasuries, the first-and third-place teams fight it out for a place in the playoffs. The second-and fourth-place teams skate through the same routine. Thus, while the third-place Black Hawks disgraced the first-place Canadiens by beating them four games out of six, including unprecedented back-to-back 3-0 shutouts, the lowly, fourth-place Red Wings swept four straight (after dropping the opener) from the Maple Leafs. But the pair of upsets were no flukes...
...five-goal-in-six-minutes barrage began at 12:52 when Howell took a pass from Alpine, walked in from the left and bounced the puck off a defenseman's skate on route to the goal. Alpine scored at 13:44 on a slow motion break with Ted Ingalls and Tom Heintzman...