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...accompanied by a host of ancestral ghosts that included the inventor of the adding machine and General Robert E. Lee. "I hated the University and I hated the town it was in," he would later write. "Everything about the place was dead. The University was a fake English set-up taken over by the graduates of fake English public schools." After graduating in 1936 without honors, Burroughs bummed around the world, funded by a family trust. He applied to the OSS (Officer's Strategic Services) but was rejected because he had deliberately cut off a piece of his finger...
Left wing Dave Connors had given Harvard some hope of restoring its mark to the .500 level 8:35 into the game when he tipped in a set-up from linemate Bob McDonald. Defenseman Mark Fusco also picked up an assist on the powerplay tally, Connors' fifth of the season...
Moments after a Crimson penalty expired, P.C. forward Mike Bolstad tipped in a meandering flip shot from the point to put the Friars out front 5:13 after the opening face-off. When Miele converted a set-up from behind the Crimson net, it looked like the rout was on, but Dave Burke sent Tom Murray in alone to cut the margin in half and sober up the euphoric Friar fans and cheerleaders...
Stevens agrees that HMC's set-up helps keep talented managers. But, he says, "There's a possible disadvantage in not having the flexibility to decide that someone--no matter how much time they're spending--isn't doing a good job. It's a different kind of decision to say to someone, 'We don't like you and we're going to fire you,' than to tell a company, 'We're going to move to a different company...
...hard to refute or refuse. There was no way to pit them against each other or to put the proverbial big picture together. Under the revised system, each year at this time the department heads meet with Kaufmann and other financial officials, and plead their cases. Kaufmann says this set-up means that Rosovsky will be able to calculate how much extra tuition departmental requests would require, and thus choose how to increase or cut personnel allocations more informedly...