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Against the Yale colleges this has been a banner year. The Yale colleges, like the Harvard Houses, compete for an intramural cup known as the Harkness Trophy. Adams defeated the Elis in football last fall, while Dunster did the honors in touch football. In winter sports Lowell defeated the Bulldogs in basketball, Kirkland won in swimming, Winthrop in hockey, while the Elis won against Kirkland in squash...
...Roosevelt and pomp & circumstance. Although no parade had been scheduled, seven military bands and guards of honor at "present arms" flanked the four-mile route. In sockets on Franklin Roosevelt's "Sunshine Special," his big, shiny limousine, stood the Presidential flag and Peru's red-and-white banner. Government workers hung out of office windows. It was Washington's first parade since Pearl Harbor...
...crisis for Leningrad was pointed to by Moscow's announcement last week that a Nazi battleship* and a 9,000-ton transport had been sunk by the Red Banner Baltic Fleet. Perhaps all-out R.A.F. attacks on Lübeck and Rostock, German Baltic supply bases, indicated the same thing...
...Harvard delegation will carry a new banner donated to the unit by the mother of one of the members. After a period of comparative quiet France Forever expects to enter more actively into the problem of national defense and the rally on Sunday, it is hoped will serve to bring unity to the action of the local Free French, and attract more members to the Boston chapter...
Predicting a banner season for football next fall, Dick Harlow, at the annual luncheon of the Varsity Club, said "We are entering an era of attack. Next fall will see a good deal of high scoring, and a lot of gambling; the passing is going to be wide open." Although unwilling to speculate on the chances for the team next fall, Harlow said that everything was shaping up well in practice...