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...episode lasting roughly from 1000 B.C. to 600 A.D. Toynbee traces the course of Hellenism's bright star lucidly, a little offhandedly, treating it largely as an object lesson for the present. Hellenism's central characteristic was the worship of man-exemplified by the ludicrously human crew of Olympian divinities and, later, by a more sophisticated secular humanism. This man worship, which has thrilled so many historians of Greece, chills Toynbee (an Anglican with a yen for syncretism). To him, it is a form of idolatry that appeals to man when he has mastered nature...
Pennsylvania coach Joe Burke called the Crimson crew "better than Yale the week before." An important object of Saturday's race is to choose seedings for next week's Eastern Sprints. On the basis of its decisive victory, the Crimson should be first...
ANNAPOLIS, Md.--The heavyweight varsity announced its claim as the ranking crew in the country Saturday, as it triumphed over a strong but outclassed Pennsylvania crew. The Penn freshmen and junior varsity dominated the wind-swept Annapolis race course, but the Crimson heavyweights salvaged the afternoon by defeating Penn, Navy, and Rutgers in the final race to carry off the Adams Cup for the fourth straight year...
...varsity 150 crew won the Goldth-wait Cup last Saturday on Princeton's Lake Carnegie to maintain its undefeated season record. The Crimson defeated both Princeton and Yale in the 34th annual renewal of the Cup race, taking first for the 14th time since the competition began...
...Goldwaith Cup regatta at Princeton, offers a rematch between Princeton lightweights and an Eli crew which edged out the Tiger eight by a bare three feet in a race last weekend. No doubt the Yale boat is considerably stronger now than earlier in the season when it succumbed to Dartmouth. Nevertheless, the formidable Crimson victory over the Indians last Saturday offers indication of another win for Laury Coolidge's undefeated varsity...