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...verse he had written on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth's reign. It was as if the mother tongue of Shakespeare and Milton had lapsed into baby talk. Betjeman's quatrains palpitated with cliches and such treacly rhymes as people/steeple, dutiful/beautiful and blue/true. Stanza 4 particularly captured the poem's schoolboy earnestness...
...opening minutes of the second stanza replayed the first period. Harvard skated well, pressured the Cod zone, slammed shots and dominated the ice--but did not score...
Harvard played a crisp, cohesive ball through most of the first half, as the cagers seemed well on their way to snapping a four-game Ivy League losing streak, but could muster only 22 points in the second stanza...
...yardlings eliminated the possibility of a shut-out less than a minute and a half into the second stanza as George Arnold batted one past the Merrimack netminder. Jim Dales and Charlie Maniekis notched assists on the play...
...Uncannier Goaltending: Harvard's Charley Petersen and the Eagles Joe Mullen must have both come off the ice after the game saying the same thing, "I should've had at least one hat trick!" Although Mullen did score once early in the opening stanza, Crimson netminder Brain Petrovek seemed to be saving his best stops all night for the Boston College winger...