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Article: The game: the Harvard-Yale football rivalry.
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- National Review
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- April 19, 1985
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TOM BERGIN, now retired as a professor of Romance languages at Yale, is the author of scholarly but readable books on Dante and Boccaccio. He is also a translator of the Divine Comedy, Vico's New Science, and Machiavelli's The Prince. But this is not all. He is an anthologist of the Provencal troubadours, and his taste for light verse, often in French forms, has rubbed off in wistful books of poetry that have had both private and public circulation. When his student A. Bartlett Giamatti became president of Yale, Tom celebrated the occasion with a villanelle.
None of this quite accounts for Tom's most recent book, The Game, a celebration of one hundred years of ...
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