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This is one sports competition, however, in which winning is of wholly secondary importance. The real appeal of competing on the Harvard fishing team is evoked by that closing stanza of John Masefield's poem...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: 'Ask Any Mermaid You Happen to See...' | 9/28/1978 | See Source »

...leading lights of Amis' collection are frequently less than well known. One of the book's funniest poems, period, is an ironic encomium to an organ grinder by C.S. Calverley (1831-84). A typical stanza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An Unapologetic Anthology | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

Shaw came back from his loss to Army with a convincing 6-2, 6-0 win over Keith Usisker. Horn, at number five, was the only Crimson to lose a set, dropping the first stanza 5-7 before coming back...

Author: By Marc M. Sadowsky, | Title: Racquetmen Roll Over Army, Destroy Cornell; Top Three Players Prepare for Prentice Cup | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

...Robertses were up 5-4, but Awad and Wendell, the Seven Sisters Trophy winners, took three consecutive games to grab the initial set. In the second stanza, the Robertses fell behind 4-1 and could never quite recover. They made a run for it, pulling to 4-3, but the Dartmouth squad proved too tough as they notched the next two games to close out the match...

Author: By Laura E. Schanberg, | Title: Netwomen Drop Final Match As Dartmouth Dominates, 9-0 | 5/11/1978 | See Source »

...second stanza, the two teams traded goals. Three times, UMass grabbed a one-goal lead, and three times Harvard came right back. Jimmy Ossyra's second marker of the quarter pulled the Crimson even at the half...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Laxmen Rally in Late Going, But UMass Hangs On, 12-11 | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

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