Word: winterers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ince plays squash, too. It's remarkable that he had never played before coming to Harvard, and this winter competed at number four and number six on the best collegiate team in the nation. Some of the explanation has to be natural ability and the excellent coaching of Corey Wynn and Jack Barnaby. But probably the main reason for his squash success is determination, trite as it may seem. Ince really works at trying to improve. One of his teammates said that he didn't really have great finesse or a soft touch, but that he more than made...
...some also receive explicit endorsement for their activism. "I'm quite certain that if I were 23 or 24, I'd be out there with the students," says Novelist Laura Z. Hobson (Gentleman's Agreement), whose son was among the 42 rebels expelled after last winter's sit-in at the University of Chicago. Using newspaper advertisements, Mrs. Hobson is helping to conduct a parental protest campaign against the expulsions, which she denounces as "overkill" in reaction to a nonviolent dissent...
...hotel is a vast rococo establishment. In the offseason, the staff tends to outnumber the 20-odd guests. Most of these regulars are women of 60 or more-a couple of Americans, a few English, a stray Parisian countess or two. Twice a day they gather in the Winter Dining Room, a smallish chamber in the hotel basement, which, despite lavish importation of daffodils and red tulips, is a frightful miniature of desolation. All guests have their own tables; there is almost no talk. The Nabokovs have a cook and eat here only when they have visitors...
...Faculty also voted to reduce winter course distribution so that first-year students will have no more than six courses simultaneously. They previously had seven courses...
During his 13 years with the freshmen, his teams piled up a 84-22-3 record while the varsity usually hovered around .500. Last winter's team finished...