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Brooks Chretien took the Army recruiting motto to heart, stopping 37 shots--including three five-on-three breakaways--against Cornell lifting the Cadets to a 2-0 upset win Saturday night. Chretien and his upstart teammates visit Bright Center tonight to face the winless Harvard men's hockey team...
...perhaps that would be a fitting motto for many of the others in Sunday's crowd of 150,000 or 300,000--a number which, as with just about every march ever held, depends on whether or not you believe the National Parks Service's estimate or the rally organizers' figures...
Bold signs direct customers to the "surfin" department, and the company motto, also in English, is pure yuppie: "We make sure you're a winner." Says Isao Iwase, managing director of Oshman's in Tokyo: "The comfortable American life-style is being more widely accepted these days." With fall in the air, American baseball gear has given way to N.F.L. hats and jackets...
...true Harvard, said William James [a Harvard graduate himself], `is the invisible Harvard in the souls of her more truth-seeking and independent and often very solitary sons.' This was an exact description of his Harvard. When it became a piety--a chesty motto suitable for fundraising or for framing on a new common-room wall--the golden age was over...
...pocked by controversy in the '60s and cheating scandals in the '70s, yielding in the '80s to a new national temper. Today women are admitted, there is a , course in ethics, and the incoming class is treated with unaccustomed humanity. "Demanding but not demeaning" is the cadre's new motto. Only the school prayer goes on as before: "Make us to choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong, and never to be content with a half truth when the whole...