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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the winter sports schedules now a closed affair, letter winners of three Varsity teams elected captains for 1948-49 and had their pictures taken for posterity yesterday. Jeremy W. Gorman '49 of Kirkland House and Shaker Heights, Ohio, was chosen swimming captain, Daniel B. Ray '49 of Winthrop House and Brooklyn, N. Y., was picked as wrestling captain, and John W. Ager, Jr. '49 of Kirkland House and Birmingham, Alabama, was elected to lead the fencers. James J. Tracy '50 of Eliot House and Shaker Heights, Ohio, was appointed swimming manager...
Amid a cheerful first act which dulled into a restless and anticlimactic finale, the Class of 1951 pulled off the first Freshman Smoker in seven years last night before a mob of nearly 1000 Freshmen who jammed Memorial Hall for the three-hour affair...
...completed the final plans, the Committee received warning last night from Richard W. Kimball '50, the Student Council's Chairman for Freshman Affairs, that he will attend the affair, and that if any riotous spirit exists, his committee will recommend to the Council the complete discontinuance of the traditional smoker...
...Quincy A.A.U. affair, Don Louria, Varsity 165-pounder, took the 175-pound class, while Dave Smith, Freshman star, took the 128-pound class. Varsity wrestler Dan Ray lost a referee's decision in the finals of the 145-pound class, and Howie Schless, Freshman coach, lost in the semis of the 121-pound division. John Chafee 1L lost in the finals of the 155-pound class...
...pretty ruthless prose. On his trip to the hometown of Hadley, Iowa (Miller grow up in a small Iowa town) for his father's funeral Peter's sensations of contrast between Big City excitement and small-town torpor have real force. The resurrections of his high-school love affair and the interlude with the Hadley Republican feature writer, a "promising" young lady journalist in her and Peter's bygone teens, catch the bittersweet of memory spanning adolescence-to-thirty...