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Dartmouth, tonight's opponent at Watson Rink (7:30, WMEX radio), had better luck with Cornell than Harvard did, outgunning the Big Red 9-7 Saturday. Of course, the Big Green didn't have to contend with the fans in Ithaca. On the contrary, Dartmouth had its own special crew of rowdies from the annual Winter Carnival madness to give it to the visiting Cornell skaters...
Beyond its commercial success, Go disciples claim it develops a far greater mental dexterity than its Western counterpart, chess. Go's applications range not onky to military tactics but to psychology, mind-training and aesthetics, as well. Some Go historians even contend that Go embraces more than a Japanese ideal of mental exercise--that it epitomizes the Japanese spirit itself...
...John Klemmer for two shows nightly at 8:30 p.m. and II p.m., Friday and Saturday. Klemmer is an exciting performer with a driving, plangent sound--one of the deepest, but often the most electrical, tenors playing. His latest album, Touch, has mellowed a bit from Waterfall. Some even contend that the songs can't know, I like the album from each other. I don't know, I like the album alot--ion any case, he's definitely worth seeing...
TRACK--This is getting boring. Another undefeated team (4-0), whose hardest tests are still to come. The Northeastern triumph was a good one, but there are still the Greater Bostons, Princeton Relays, Heps, and IC4A's with which to contend. Along with, of course, Princeton itself, which means, of course an "A-" and we'll see what happens next month...
...Harvard team which looked anything but impressive a month ago finds itself this morning with a winning record, a sixth-place perch in the ECAC, and an eight-place ranking in the nation. Now all it has to contend with are exams--the blue-book variety--and the thought of BU a week from Monday. Happy Reading Period...