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Clinching its unofficial title as the best team in New England, the varsity tennis team nevertheless dropped to third place in the Eastern intercollegiate Tennis League after its match Saturday at Dart-mouth. In the official E.I.T.L. match of six singles and three doubles, the Indians best the Crimson, 5 to 4, but lost, 9 to 6, in the regularly scheduled non-league contest...
Because of this arrangement, the Crimson ended the season with an 11 and 2 overall record, without a loss to a New England school. In the E.I.T.L., however, the Crimson wound up with a 4-2 record, behind both undefeated Dart-mouth and Princeton, which do not play each other...
...contains are significant, and the recommendations constructive. The Report makes clear, however, that the problem of teaching a G.E. course requires a more detailed investigation. Such a study should include General Education Afh in its scope, for this course has been this target of many a well-aimed dart. The Council has begun the job, though, a job that has to be done and that so far has been done well...
...public life, for living naturally and even comfortably in the public gaze, like a goldfish in its bowl, and for instinctively evading female critics, enraged politicos and other predators with little more than a lazy movement of the fins. Like a good dinner hostess, she is able to dart into controversial subjects (birth control, Senator Joe McCarthy, racial segregation) and out again, getting her strong opinions across in a deceptively mild way. She has a gift for the unquotable sentence: those who attempt to pin her down on the evidence of her words find her vagueness irritatingly artful...
...possible in relation to width, 2) keep the wing span small in relation to width and 3) sweep the wings back sharply as they stretch away from the fuselage. These tricks of design, they discovered, add up to a wing like an arrowhead or a schoolboy's paper dart...