Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Buswell it was the third major concert appearance in Cambridge this semester. This time the program consisted of the three even-numbered sonatas for violin and harpsichord by J. S. Bach, for which occasion Valenti's custom-made two-manual, seven-stop Challis (featuring among other things, a 16-foot stop and a metal sounding board) was carted up by station wagon from New York. The combined reputations of composer and performers insured a capacity audience, which as it turned out subsumed the entire range of musical appreciation from hedonism to intellectuality. Some came to analyze, some to envy...
Harvard actually led at the end of the first half, 5-3, but it was only the fantastic net-minding of Ed McCrae which kept the Crimson in the game at all. McCrea could not single-handedly stop the Blue...
Psychologically down after easy wins against weaklings Williams and Dartmouth in the last two weeks. Harvard could do little to stop the Blue. Yale, improving tremendously each game, managed to maintain enough of the momentum that inspired them to tie defending Ivy champ Princeton, 8-8, last week, and had no trouble at all with the Crimson...
Building their offense around individual dodges and accurate passing whenever the Harvard defense managed to momen- tarily stop their drives, the Yalies bombarded goalie McCrea from all angles...
...come through. All the while they're not more than 30 feet from me, but all I can do is watch their green-helmeted heads working. I shine a light in their eyes but Tom tells me not to and he's head of the defense committee so I stop...