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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...squash and tennis teams) picked up where his mentor left off, recording a 355-95 mark during his remarkable 36-year career. Barnaby led the racquetmen to 21 Ivy League titles, 20 national intercollegiate titles, 16 national singles championships, 16 intercollegiate singles titles and 10 six-man championships. Needless to say, this kind of showing is unequalled in the annals of squash...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Racquetmen: 58 and Counting | 6/11/1987 | See Source »

...Needless to say, it was the best of the four years," says Rich Kennelly. "Yale didn't give us much competition, [but] within the shell, it just kept getting better and better...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: Harvard-Yale: The Last Race | 6/10/1987 | See Source »

...hand and the Conservative Club (backed up by the University's disciplinary and law-enforcement machinery) on the other. The events are always conducted in an atmosphere of siege, complete with police, security men, video cameras, and crude intimidation by rattling the RRR [Resolution on Rights and Responsibilites] sabre. Needless to say, this flexing of administrative muscle never works, and when a predictable "disruption" occurs, Dean Epps swings into action as the Conservative Club's prosecuting attorney. The end benefit, apart from the gagging of student dissent by grounding a nucleus of student activists with disciplinary probation, is invisible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Travesty | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

...hunt," the old hands around him know that is the end of an idea. His other favorite phrase, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it," is equally unspectacular but equally meaningful for the Baker crew. It means stop right there, we don't want any more needless work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Giving Normalcy a Good Name | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

Another freshman commented that "a beer bash" was probably not a great thing to do. Needless to say, the fact that one of the biggest-name Harvard bands was playing in a dance-oriented party didn't receive too much Crimson attention...

Author: By Michael L. Goldenberg, | Title: About the 'Big Party' | 4/10/1987 | See Source »

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