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Tomorrow the last eighteen horses stationed with the Harvard Regiment will leave for Maynard, Mass., to the MP detachment stationed there. They will be ridden there by cadets with riding passes. The first group of twenty-eight departed for the remount station, Fort Royal, Virginia, last Monday...
...Lieut. Commander Michael Wishengrad, the Navy's New York venereal-disease control officer, said that nonprofessional pickups between 15 and 19 accounted for three out of four infections. Eighteen-hundred random cases reported to Washington indicated at least 64% of infections come from "amateurs...
Harvard rallied after eighteen minutes had passed, and decided finally to press Yale in the backcourt. These tactics paid off, the Blue not having learned how to bring the ball up against such an apparently new device, and Frank Bixler dunked two fouls. Hugh Hyde slipped in for a basket. Mike Keene converted a layup--all within fifty seconds. But the Crimson five was still three points behind, and Jack Torgan's long-range effort as the final gun sounded still left Harvard a point behind...
...many members of Harvard College whose academic course is far from finished. To be sure, there is nothing unique in what is happening here in Cambridge. Throughout the nation our college empty so that our armies may grow in strength. Throughout the nation able-bodies young men of eighteen and nineteen years of age are being called to join the armed forces already fighting on many fronts and on many seas. For more than a year now every day has witnessed an increasing impact of the war on academic life. You have watched a college devoted to the arts...
...Tactically Logical Cruiser for Modern War was what Author Peter Marsh Stanford called his unorthodox proposal. Besides four 14-in. guns it would carry, as anti-aircraft protection, twenty-four 5-in. and eighteen 40-mm. guns, four multiple pom-poms plus machine guns, six planes with two catapults on the quarterdeck and sixteen 21-in. torpedo tubes. Such a mighty cruiser, said Stanford, would be necessarily shorter, fatter and slower than the Brooklyn, but anyway "no ship can ever be designed fast enough to run away from enemy aircraft...