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UNTIL RECENT essays by George Kennan and Sidney Hook, the academic right wing had not contributed much literature to the debate on higher education. Most of their points had already been made by J. H. Newman in lectures on "The Idea of a University" in 1859. What has followed are variations on two platitudes: that "liberal knowledge" should be sought for its own sake and divorced from practical ends; secondly, that intellect is best protected in a community of intellectuals. These ideas are almost simplistic. That they are worth repeating in 1969 comments on the decay of the modern university...
...lead at the start, but Mike Janczewski and Chris Gallagher rallied the Crimson to a one-point advantage with two minutes left in the half. Then Waickowski entered the game, sank a turn around and a three-point tip-in on successive forays and finished up with a sweeping hook from the right baseline shortly before the buzzer. Harvard led at the half...
Harvard narrowed this lead slowly as the passing improved, and two free throws by Joe Stanislaw evened the score at 32-32, with less than three minutes remaining in the first half. A gorgeous hook shot by Hardy enabled the Crimson to lead by two points, but Yale retaliated with six consecutive points and was never headed thereafter. The halftime score...
...free throw and, after a wild scramble, Kanuth and Hardy came away with the rebound. Harrison called timeout and set up a play for Gallagher to tie the game. The "Rabbit" spun in from the right corner, but leery of an offensive foul, went with a left-handed hook in the lane rather than continuing his drive...
...Dempsey described the first round: "I hit him with a left hook on his cheek bone and temple. It busted his eye open and down he went, shaking the ring like an earthquake. I felt like I wanted to get down there on the deck on top of him and beat him some more. But then he started to get up. I stood right over him and beat him to the canvas again. And again. And again. These were the rules in those days...