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Coach Larry Coolidge's varsity light-weights were never in serious contention for the Wright Cup. Cornell led most of the way, while Navy crept up at the end and MIT made a fantastic sprint to catch the Big Red for a dead beat. The Crimson had been seeded first and was aiming for its fifth straight title...

Author: By C. BOYDEN Gray, | Title: M.I.T., Navy, Cornell Dead Heat Ends Lightweights' Domination | 5/21/1962 | See Source »

...N.M.S.'s seven-year history, all of the Digest Foundation's 86 scholarships have been for Macalester. In some years, half of all winners in Minnesota have thus chosen Macalester. This year only one of Macalester's 20 winners is un-Digested-a Minnesota lad who crept in on an IBM scholarship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Meritorious Macalester | 5/4/1962 | See Source »

...Freshman Jubilee deficit crept past the $1400 mark last night as the audit books entered its final stages. The final responsibility for taking in this will now apparently have to lie with the Freshman Dean's office...

Author: By Richard Cotton, | Title: Jubilee Deficit Swells; Dean Von Stade Picks Up Tab | 5/1/1962 | See Source »

...atomic age, March winds and April showers also bring fallouts from the thin upper air. As spring crept over the Northern Hemisphere last week, scientists everywhere deployed their Geiger count ers, sure that radioactivity would rise with the daffodils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fallout with the Daffodils | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

...Sophistication. "The world was waiting. Waiting for me, to whisper my incantation 'I am George Emlyn Williams and . . .' I was lying with my head on my fist on morning grass, dry of dew and warm with the first heat of the year. Spring smells and earth feelings crept into my seven-year-old body; nine-tenths innocent, one-tenth conscient. it responded. I rolled one cheek up till it closed an eye, and squinted down at the sunlit village...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Curtain Going Up | 4/20/1962 | See Source »

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