Word: crop
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Each year at midyears, a new crop of Harvard men are taken into the Alumni fold. For no matter what happens after that date members of the Freshman class who pass their first undergraduate exam-hurdle are identified with the most far-flung and cosmopolitan association of college alumni in the world. It is very typical of the Harvard system to class a man as part of Harvard, as of that controversial genus harvardi viri, long before the awarding of the degree. It is typical of the alumni setup at Harvard, which is, in every way, mature, highly sober...
These holdovers from last year will be supplemented mostly by a crop of yearlings which includes two ex-servicemen, Andy Laska and Frank Oftring, and an outstanding New York schoolboy last year, Bob Cousy. Bob Curran, a Junior, may also see considerable action tonight. Holy Cross, whose matchbox gymnasium is inadequate for anything but practice purposes, will be playing on its "home court" tonight...
...Hungry Britain, waiting for the 160,000,000 bushels of wheat Canada had promised her this crop year, got some grim statistics. By last week, the official end of the Great Lakes navigation season, Canada had exported only 75,000,000 bu. -its poorest showing since 1942. Britain had got only about 52,000.000 bu. of that; the rest went to markets like the West Indies, Africa, India. Reasons for late and small delivery: i) Canada's small wheat carryover; 2) a shortage of railway cars, use of wheat ships for coal after last spring's U.S. coal...
...haul enough wheat by rail to Halifax to meet its promise to Britain. But the race would be close. Britain, which would like an extra 40,000,000 bushels of wheat, is unlikely to get any of it. Canada does not have it to spare, despite a near bumper crop of 418,000,000 bushels...
Morley believes that the great Mayan cities were slowly abandoned, one after the other, principally because of crop failures, partly because of epidemics, social disintegration, wars. The last great city founded was Mayapan, about A.D. 1000. It was sacked by local rivals some 450 years later. Within another century Cortes and his Spaniards appeared. Their conquest of the Maya lands was difficult and protracted, for the Maya were degenerate but they were stubborn...