Word: skips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...returnee this season, high-scoring Wally Birchler, signed a contract with the Baltimore Orioles and is ineligible to play. Then the biggest player on the squad, 6-8 Dave Delaney, decided to spend more time on his studies and quit the team. A week ago the Terriers' best sophomore, Skip Mortimer, who was averaging 16 points a game, slipped a disc and will be out for the season...
...chief defect of the concert was the atrocious choice of music. (I know some habitual concertgoers who decided to skip this one when they saw the program.) Three of the four selections were late nineteenth century romantic, and the fourth--though written later--was largely in that style. Now it is good to have some sensationalism from the Romantic period, but all of the world's music was not written after 1850. At Christmas time, when there is so much really great and profound music from the baroque period that is especially appropriate, it is criminal that the whole program...
...dreams of James M. McGovern Jr. '64 point upward--perhaps to Congress, perhaps to statewide office. But the ladder of ascending political ambition is a steep one, and McGovern has resolved to climb every rung, not hop, skip, and jump with the danger of dropping painfully to the bottom. His race three weeks ago for the Cambridge City Council was a losing one because he wasn't elected. But the 22-year-old candidate did not expect to win, and the events of the campaign did nothing to discourage his dreams...
...game developed into the hard-hosed defensive battle everyone expected. On three running plays Yale ground out nine yards to the Crimson 27. With a fourth-and-one situation, fullback Don Barrows tried to go up the middle and was upended at the line of scrimmage by Harvard tackle Skip Sviokla...
...students offered advanced placement, 113 -- or about 54 per cent -- turned it down. Last year, only 41 per cent of the students offered the chance to skip a year chose...