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Brendan Meagher scored three goals in the period, and Will Sollee netted another. The Crimson defense held a surprisingly complacent and sluggish Dartmouth offense to only two goals in the quarter, the second coming with just one second left in the period, as Harvard took an early 5-2 lead and held on for a 7-5 halftime edge...
Suffering from post-Ivy League tournament doldrums, the Harvard softball team played sluggish ball against a weaker Curry College Squad for six innings but finally blew the game open. 13-5, with a seven run explosion in the seventh inning...
...Harvard, however, that got off to a sluggish start, scoring only one in the first quarter, while the Minutemen notched three goals. In the second quarter the Crimson defense clamped down and goalie Tim Pendergast turned away blast after blast to limit the UMass attack to only one goal. Pendergast had an outstanding game, stopping 27 Minutemen shots...
Here, prices are substantially lower than those for 19th century works, making them ideal entry points for the new collector, but not for jittery investors. Consider these risks: Robert Frost brings 25% less than he did a decade ago, Hemingway is barely holding, and Faulkner is sluggish. On the other hand, Wallace Stevens' rare first volume, Harmonium, $2 when published in 1923, can bring $800. The far more recent works of John Updike, John Cheever and Saul Bellow have done nearly as well. Some sharp collectors bought John Gardner's first novel, The Resurrection (1972), for cut-rate...
...Crimson displayed its inertia in this weekend's trip to Columbia and Penn. In both New York and Philadelphia, the batsmen split doubleheaders, dropping the opener and then capturing the nightcap. In all four games, Harvard came alive in the late innings after sluggish starts...