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...idea seems rather commonplace until you take a look at who it comes from, and where he or she said it. Like the idea to enlist women deacons for the Roman Catholic Church, which came from the Pope, not Daniel Berrigan. Or statehood for Puerto Rico, which could surpass Washington D.C. as a Democratic Party stronghold, which came, most recently, from then-President Ford...
This year the Bulldogs and new head coach Tim Taylor are excited, and they sniff victory. The Elis have already won five games this season to surpass their victory total of last year's dismal 4-21 season and are optimistic about their remaining games...
...Saturday, when the senior quarterback will most likely become the all-time total offense leader for Harvard. Going into the Yale contest, Kubacki had narrowed his year long pursuit of Dick Clasby's '54 career mark to just 46 yards. In addition, Kubacki needs two touchdown passes to surpass the career t.d. toss mark of 20 by Ric Zimmerman...
Senior tight end BOB McDERMOTT will try to net yet another record, since he needs just two catches to surpass Pete Varney '71 as Harvard's career leader in tight end receptions. With those two grabs McDermott, who already holds the record for most career years by a tight end, would also move to third place on Harvard's all-time reception list...
...turn away from even the intrinsic pleasure of his works, and at the same time so enchantingly open to interpreters that the PMLA index mushrooms yearly with new entries under his name. The flood of criticism is growing so rapidly that Richard Seaver estimates in his introduction it will surpass in bulk by the year 2000 the secondary work on any other writer in English besides Shakespeare...