Word: contests
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Dartmouth's depth and experience proved to be more than the varsity lacrosse team could handle as it dropped its fourth straight Ivy League contest 19 to 2 at Hanover Saturday. Varsity pass sequences, which had worked effectively against Tufts last Wednesday, were almost completely stifled by the Indians' rugged experienced defense...
Down 6 to 5 going into the last five minutes of the contest, the Crimson rallied when center David Holmes punted over the Yale three quarters line to their 35. In the resulting scrum, the ball was heeled back to scrum half Jack Butterfield, who immediately flipped it out to Holmes...
...accompanying junior varsity contest, the Crimson eight lost to a fast Princeton crew by slightly more than a second. The Tigers covered the course in 6:39.1, bettering the Crimson's 6:40.3. Again, Yale trailed far behind the leaders, turning in a slow 7:02.0 performance...
...universities, a basic idea of democracy, "that truth will emerge victorious in a free contest of ideas," takes the form of "the distilled voodoo of academic freedom," Buckley, who is author of God and Man at Yale, continued. Universities do not take sides, because the acceptance of truth would involve the rejection of its opposite as an error, a violation of "academic freedom...
...Smithies played innocent before the contest, saying they had "little experience in such affairs." However, before the climactic race started, the eight Western Massachusetts inhabitants took out a shell--despite loud fears voiced by the cox (or is it coxess?) that the boat could not possibly fit between the piers of the bridge...