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Said Donato, also smiling, “I did happen to catch him in the head the other day in practice, but, as many goalies I’ve played with will tell you, that’s not an uncommon occurrence...
...Staff argues Harvard should not be singled out because its flirtations with Hitler were “not uncommon to the interwar period.” We’re not sure what is more appalling about this contention—the unconscionable attempt to deflect responsibility or the reasonings’ laughable intellectual laziness. “Everyone was doing it” did not work on the playground and it certainly isn’t effective when confronted with proof that this newspaper and this University openly espoused the twentieth century’s most pernicious ideas...
Decades ago, it was not uncommon for faculty and students to engage in relationships. In fact, many resulted in marriage...
...denying that Harvard’s past is not peppered with highly contentious actions on the part of its students and faculty. And no one is looking for a pardon. Yet, while Norwood’s examples are certainly disgraceful, they are not uncommon to the interwar period, when many American institutions struggled with their relationships with pre-war Germany. The fact that Norwood has chosen to harp on Harvard alone makes his paper smack of opportunism, not the qualities of an honest scholarly attempt to provide accurate historical perspective...
...It’s not an uncommon request, and it’s the University’s policy not to fly flags of unrecognized countries,” said Science Center Director Dean R. Gallant...