Word: four
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Navy opened its season with a victory, but since then has not won a game in eight tries. There are only four lettermen returning from last year's squad...
...rules do serve, it can be argued, to keep the student from scattering his course selections all over everywhere and coming out with nothing but a sort of Reader's Digest education, Intellectual dilettantism. The rules make sure the student at least does something in his four years at Harvard. In the first place, this isn't exactly true: everyone knows it is possible to get a Harvard degree while doing almost nothing for four years but reading an occasional chapter and playing the pin-ball machines. Besides, even if that argument were valid it wouldn't be compelling...
...That is where my own hesitations on the "how far can we go" matter come in. Why not scuttle the sixteen-course requirement as well and leave every man's education up to him? I have doubts about how well that would work out. Ideally, we should omit the four years too, and the whole community revert to the Greek university, a community for inquiry where a person stays as long as he deems needful. But that kind of university also should not grant degrees. Maybe the time will come when we can seriously entertain such a possibility. But given...
...Then there was Harvard. Coach Bob Harrison bad scheduled a murderous series of holiday games for a Crimson team that is still two years away from Eastern prominence. But Harvard stood up surprisingly well. Playing without Dale Dover for part of the trip the Crimson lost four of five games, but the competition was the stiffest Harvard has ever faced. At Greenshoro, it was third ranked North Carolina. Harvard lost. 92-74, but held UNC's All-American Charlie Scott to less than 20 points...
Before his return to Jefferson four days later, Lucius has gotten an eyeful of sparks. He has been stabbed for defending Corrie's good name against the slanders of her rotten nephew Otis ("Imagine," says a wondering Boon as he cleans out the wound, "eleven years old and already knife-cut in a whorehouse brawl"). He has found himself in the middle of a quarrel between his pals and Sheriff Butch Lovemaiden. And he has become involved in the damnedest, most exciting horse race anybody ever...