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None of the students whose names appeared in the log knew of its existence. Only three of the seventeen students contacted by The Crimson expressed indifference that their activities could be publicly examined. The rest clearly--and rightly--took strenous objection to this invasion of privacy...
...doubles combination of Albert Chang and John Tolmie was formed because of an injury, they advanced to the semifinals, losing to Princeton in straight sets, 6-4, 7-6. Similarly, the youthful team of Williams and freshman Brent Latanzi was dropped in the semifinals. But only after a strenous battle, in which the Crimson had a crack at taking both the second and third sets on serve...
...water polo team: This may be the most strenous sport since rollerball. The supposed object: to toss the ball into the net. The secret agenda: to drown the opponent. Perhaps this is overestimating the vicious nature of the game, but water polo is the most under-appreciated sport around. It falls somewhere between ballet and bull-riding in the gracefulness department, and has more scoring than field hockey and soccer combined...
...input into the selection process. Though superficially well-qualified for the job, Keenan continues to serve on the Board of Governors of Reza Shah Kabir University (RSKU), the Iranian national university, which is still in its planning stages. Keenan has supported the RSKU project from the start, over the strenous objections of members of the Harvard community, who have rightly contended that the repressive, totalitarian nature of the Iranian regime stifles academic freedom, and that the RSKU project thus is destined to be no more than a new tool of the Shah's regime. It is unfortunate that the dubious...
...your head against a wall because it feels so good when you stop. The ordered exercise was a way of disciplining one's life so that it had function and regularity beyond that of the more oblique areas of academia. But this order could be achieved in a less strenous fashion...