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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...YORK, Nov. 8--The varsity cross country squad went down to its first defeat of the season this afternoon in the Heptagonal championships at Van Cortlandt Park. The Crimson finished third in the ten-team meet, behind Cornell and Navy...

Author: By John P. Demos, | Title: Cornell Wins Heps; Varsity Third | 11/9/1957 | See Source »

...varsity cross country team, still plagued by illness but still unbeaten, goes after the Heptagonal championship in New York this afternoon. Seven Ivy League squads, plus Army and Navy, will constitute the opposition...

Author: By John P. Demos, | Title: Unbeaten Harriers Contend For Heptagonal Championship Today | 11/8/1957 | See Source »

Guillen chose as examples three love poems by the 16th century Spanish mystic, St. John of the Cross. These poems show that the union of the soul and the body must be approached by love and faith, not by reason, the Wellesley professor said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spanish Poet Delivers Initial Norton Lecture | 11/6/1957 | See Source »

Guillen noted that however mystical St. John of the Cross may have been, the three poems considered only as poetry are not mystical, for "his terms of reference are unceasingly human...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spanish Poet Delivers Initial Norton Lecture | 11/6/1957 | See Source »

...John's poetry, which was banned by the Catholic church because it was too independent of the church in its thought, was a point of departure for later 16th century poets, according to Guillen. Three hundred years later, the French poet Charles Baudelaire considered St. John of the Cross "the perfect poet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spanish Poet Delivers Initial Norton Lecture | 11/6/1957 | See Source »

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