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Although Logan has scored consistently this year, an overall lack of experience has prevented the Crimson ranks from running at par with their talent. A three-year veteran of cross country and an All-American in indoor track, Murphy hoped to boost the tem even though he has only done light running since he was operated on at the end of August...
...next SoHo scoring drive--a 75-yard jaunt--running backs Carl Morillo, Gallito, and Schereschewsky all carried the ball once, for an average gain of 17.5 yards, and to cap the drive, Auteri hit tight end par excellence John Cheney for a 20-yard gain...
Dean M. Gallant, executive officer for the Standing Committee on the Use of Human Subjects at Harvard University, said yesterday he was not surprised Harvard students comprise the largest group selected for the study. He explained that the drugs are probably on a par with Valium and Librium, and that Harvard students are a "very rich, upwardly mobile, and sophisticated" group--the type usually associated with the use of those drugs...
...step up from a stereotypical Bible college, long on piety and short on brains. Not so. Even outside the Evangelical subculture, the college, which has 2,025 undergraduates, is recognized for its academic stature. Last year it enrolled 53 National Merit Scholars, a total that put Wheaton on a par with the best four-year colleges of comparable size and, it boasts, in the top tenth of all U.S. colleges and universities. The National Research Council reports that for the period from 1920 to 1976, Wheaton alumni ranked eleventh among all four-year colleges in earning Ph.D. degrees, edging...
Smatterings of vague humility, however, do punctuate choice sections of Still Life. Every 75 pages or so, Robbins evaluates the performance of his Remington SL3, often admitting that somehow it is not performing up to par, despite the technological conveniences it manifests. Only once does he shift the blame for Still Life to himself, only once does he acknowledge the lone clear message conveyed by his prose--only once does he refer to himself as "an underdeveloped novelist with an overdeveloped typewriter." Yet he does take the poor machine out of it agony for the last half of the epilogue...