Word: spate
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...each of the first two games, he carried the ball over 30 times for more than 150 yards, including three touchdowns in a win over Brown. It was in the game against the Bears, though, that Dawson was first hindered by an injury, leaving the field for a spate in the first quarter with a slight hip bruise.It was the start of a downward trend. The next week against Lehigh, Dawson was held to 59 yards on 15 carries as the Mountain Hawks stacked the box to contain him. He missed much of the first and fourth quarters, and after...
...most consistently competitive programs in Division 1-AA. Or alternatively an overabundance of football insight, the shared realization that this year’s incarnation should suffer from the graduation of its superstar quarterback, several key starters on defense, and its top special-teamer. Plus the spate of injuries, the hyper-informed fan might deduce, on both sides of the ball and the unhealthy dependence on the tailback would hamper the Crimson’s chances in 2005. In this confusion, I decided to poll a random sampling of the freshman class, the nubile, the predominantly uninitiated, presumably possessing...
Tuned in to the many ongoing debates on campus, I have been dumbstruck by a spate of opinions that smack of the one thing that each of us probably swore we would never exhibit: old-school snobbery. That’s right, snobbery: the unwarranted and self-congratulatory intellectual snobbery that tries to castigate an entire segment of the student body—athletes, for example—as unworthy and unnecessary to student life, and the snobbery that suggests we are all too important to be bothered with the foolish plebeians who see fit to visit our campus. This...
Admittedly, Eliot’s recent spate of fire alarms has been somewhat unusual—of the three total alarms of this semester, two occurred within a 30-hour period. The cause of the problem, however, was also unusual and has already been addressed. (A smoke detector in a basement bakery was tripped by steam and water that had been generated by recent maintenance work done on a nearby wall.) We’re pleased that maintenance officials are taking steps to correct this issue, and we encourage the University to do whatever it can to similarly reduce...
Breaux, a freshman wide receiver for the Harvard football team, was last on the depth chart heading into training camp. But weeks later, after an impressive performance against Lehigh and after a spate of injuries took its toll on the Crimson’s receiver corps, Breaux now finds his name at the top of the same chart...