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...powerful Harvard nine meets a curiously unpredictable opponent from high above the waters of mighty Lake Cayuga. Cornell, plagued by poor fielding and weak pitching, has been quite erratic this season. In one game it committed seven errors while losing 17-0. Yet, on occasion, the Big Red's big bats rescue the team from its defensive lapses. Second baseman Rick Dooley, shortstop Tony DeLaurentism and sophomore third sacker Bob Baker are all potent troublemakers...
...hilltop campus far above Cayuga's waters-longest of New York's Finger Lakes-daringly coed (since 1872) Cornell soon climbed to first-class status. Down the hill marched illustrious alumni, from F.D.R.'s Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. to Lawyer Arthur Dean, who now chairs the trustees. Other notables: Critic George Jean Nathan, Physicist Isidor Rabi, Authors Pearl Buck and E. B. White...
There are other strange things about Cornell. Its band marches in straight columns and drills with precision. And they are big on canoes at Lake Cayuga...
Heavy winds and rain forced the scheduled mile and three-quarters race on Lake Cayuga onto the shorter course. The shells were staggered at the start with the varsity on the inside and Cornell on the outside...
...Indians of the Five Nations (Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca) were called Iroquois by the French because they allegedly closed conversations with the words hiro ("I have spoken") and koué ("with joy" or "with sorrow," depending on the tone of voice used...