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That game had to discourage any wishful thinking about Harvard's chances this year. In their two previous meetings the Crimson overwhelmed the Engineers, 9-0 and 5-0. MIT played Harvard to a stand-still on Wednesday and only Ralph Booth's fluke goal prevented...
Unfortunately, the fluke goal typified the kind of game the two teams played all afternoon. It was not your standard 5-0 Crimson rout; Harvard displayed little of the crisp passing and overpowering offense which characterized Crimson soccer teams of the past. To be brutally honest it was nothing but plain old mediocre soccer all game long and boring soccer at that...
Whitlock fears that the large number of returnees may signal a reversal of the trend toward leave-taking, a trend which began during the upheavals of the late sixties. "There can always be a fluke, students can always stop taking leave," he said. The number of students on leave jumped from 372 to 437 last year while the volume of returning students increased 52 to 418. Both of these statistics cover an entire year...
...remodeling of Fontainebleau, his chances of getting another such hero of the High Renaissance were gone. Raphael was dead. Michelangelo rebuffed Francis' overtures. That left younger men, notably Rosso, who had been cut adrift by the sack of Rome in 1527 and now, by a quite oneiric fluke of luck, became impresario of all the royal studios and workshops...
...almost total collapse of Yale. The Quakers finished fourth with 233 points to Harvard's 240 and N.C. State's 240.5 and Princeton's untouchable 361, but it battled the Crimson and the Wolfpack all three days for the runner-up spot. Penn's finish, however, was no fluke. It had conceded its dual meet season and unlike Princeton, Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth (which finished an abysmal eighth) it had not shaved or peaked until this weekend, and it paid off as Penn swimmers, in most cases, swam a couple of seconds faster in every race...