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Harvard captured the Compton Cup for the fifth straight year as all five heavyweight eights pounded to convincing victories over Princeton and M.I.T. on the Charles Basin Saturday...
...heavyweight crew races against M.I.T. and Princeton for the Compton Cup on the Charles today. The outcome is likely to be a Crimson triumph for the fifth consecutive year...
...Tiger varsity left the starting line in the Compton Cup as the near-unanimous choice for U.S. Olympic representation before a five-length Harvard victory forced a revision in predictions...
Sometimes slightly authoritarian, Compton's scolds readers in an article on the arts: "The person who says he dislikes classical music is condemning himself, not music...
Typical of the books' approaches are their opening sentences on articles on Minnesota. "Minnesota is one of the chief food-producing states in the United States," says World Book. "Nature has been good to Minnesota. It has given the state many resources for work and play," carols Compton's. "Minnesota is a north-central state near the center of North America," states Britannica. "A train of two-wheeled carts screeched and rumbled along the dusty trail," coaxes Book of Knowledge. Britannica's brevity shows in its listing of well-known Minnesotans; it is the only book...