Word: york
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York's rugged Van Cortlandt Park once again took its toll on the Crimson thinclads as they suffered two of their most lopsided defeats in recent history, dropping 16-41 to the Quakers and by a disgusting similar 17-42 margin to Columbia...
Styron tells his story through Stingo, an aspiring Tidewater writer who has come to New York in search of literary fame and fortune. He settles in a boarding house in Brooklyn, where he meets Nathan and Sophie, obsessive lovers, Olympic sexual athletes, and partners in mental disease. In its particulars, Sophie's Choice evokes Styron's own experience as a young writer struggling with hisfirst novel; in its overall scheme, it is Stingo's Bildungsroman, the story of a young man travelling north and discovering the nature of evil...
...metropolis like New York or Boston, where thousands of students apply for admission and thousands of alumni are concentrated in a small area, a network of committees constantly in contact with Harvard performs the University's local work. In rural areas, high school students apply on their own initiative and the quiet alumnus can remain happily off the fundraisers annual rounds if he wants...
...admissions and scholarship work is serious business, but for most people, Harvard Clubs primarily mean cocktail parties. Rochester has no separate building for its Harvard Club like the New York City club's luxurious midtown quarters, so its alumni use prestigious local clubs like the Genesee Valley Club for their functions. The Harvard Club sponsors a getaway picnic," a freshman upperclassmen party, a Christmas luncheon, and a winter outing each year...
Nobody could have confused the Harvard soccer eleven with the North American Soccer League Champion Vancouver Whitecaps yesterday afternoon. Fortunately for the Crimson, nobody could have confused the visitors from Wesleyan with the New York Cosmos either, and Harvard escaped with its all-important first victory of the young season...