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Harvard-Army meets in the past have been close, and today's encounter should be no exception. If each team scores as expected in its strongest events, the outcome of the meet could depend upon only one or two contests. The widest margin of victory for either team in recent years came last spring when the Crimson...
...basis of past performances, the Cadets should have the edge today in the pole vault, high jump, relays and sprints, while the Crimson hopes to counter with superior showings in the distance races, weight throw and long jump. The shot put and 1000-yard run are considered toss...
...Army should have little trouble sweeping the pole vault, an event in which three Cadets have outjumped Clayton Bredlan, Harvard's top vaulter. To make matters worse. Bredlan is a doubtful participant today due to an injury sustained against...
...called forth grateful rapture from a whole youthful generation who believed that an interpreter of their innermost life had risen from their own midst." The novel's appeal has continued over the years, and it speaks (as do other Hesse novels, particularly Steppenwolf and Siddhartha ) with especial force to today's young people-whether they are questioning, confused, alienated, or depressed...
...local School Superintendent, Ralph Ryder, described Tom Marino as "an outstanding teacher," and I suspect he is right. It would be hard to come up with three books more suitable than these for engaging and stretching the minds of today's high-school teenagers. What a far cry this is from the bland pap and drivel-such as the verse of Edgar Guest-that I had to study (and memorize!) when attending high school in Maine some years ago. I am sorry I didn't have as sage an English teacher as Mr. Marino, and Telstar High should regret that...