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Hackett swam the 1500 in 15:56, the 800 in 8:17, the 400 in 4:01 (9th place) and the 200 in 1:55.67 (12th place...
...even if they win all of their remaining three league games--league-leading Cornell on May 9th and a twinbill against Army the next day--they won't win the Eastern League unless the Big Red comes up short somewhere along the line. With six games remaining, Cornell could conceivably lose a couple, especially since it has yet to face EIBL powers Navy and Princeton, not to mention the contest with the Crimson. If it does, Harvard can cop the title by winning its last three. If it doesn't, that...
...buried trea sure in County Tipperary. Near the town of Killenaule, not far from the ruins of sev eral medieval monasteries, and barely a foot below the surface of a bog, he made an astonishing discovery: a complete set of Communion vessels dating from the 8th or early 9th century. The choicest piece was a two-handled silver chalice, 8 in. high and ornamented with gold filigree and amber studs. With it, the contractor found a matching silver tray, called a paten, and a gilt-bronze ladle with perforations to strain grape pulp from the sacramental wine...
Bunting is an extraordinary man. He was a Marine who went to Virginia Military Institute, became first captain, then a Rhodes scholar, fought with the Mobile Riverine Force of the 9th Infantry Division in Viet Nam, and as a major taught at West Point. He left the Army with feelings of sympathetic frustration over watching good men fight a useless war in the wrong way. He became president of Briarcliff College, wrote another novel (The Advent of Frederick Giles), and moved to Hampden-Sydney in 1977. His time is spent now with his students, and with Brahms, Carlyle...
Neither Byzantine nor Lombard: The Evolution of Southern Italy in the 9th and 10th Centuries--Barbara M. Kreutz, assistant vice chancellor, University of Wisconsin; Agassiz House...