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Brown's victory, its eighteenth straight in Ivy competition, gave the Bruins the championship with a record of seven wins and no losses. Harvard came in second, with six wins including a 4-1 triumph over Yale Friday. Its only loss was to Brown...
...types of space are best for concentrated studying. Ideally, one should be totally alone, buried in books. The depths of Widener are close to perfect, and Kirkland's creaky eighteenth-century library is good on a light-to-medium day. Such facilities can handle only a limited number of students, however, and the next best thing is a room so large that no single person is distracting. In Lamont, a small stall partition is enough to isolate the student from the rest of the room...
That doctrine rests firmly on the basis of eighteenth century Newtonian science. According to that conception, there are certain laws in nature which man can learn through experiment. For Rusk, the experience at Munich in 1938 represents a "laboratory exercise in the anatomy and physiology of aggression" from which certain "eternal truths" emerged, namely, that "aggression" must be stopped by force. Modern scientific thought would hardly call its laws "eternal truths," yet Rusk continues to pride himself on the scientific nature of his thinking...
Bullitt smiles when he talks about that lamp. When he does anything, whether it is studying eighteenth century literature or spending hours aloft in a rented Cessna 150 working for a pilot's license, or playing a weekly game of tennis with John H. Finley '25, Master of Eliot House, he does it whole-hog, with an eye to getting good results...
...Americans talk every day about our founding fathers of the eighteenth century. Our founding fathers lived in the period of the Emperor Chlien-lung, who ruled for sixty years at the height of a two thousand-year development of imperial monarchy. Chairman Mao doesn't seem to know it, but he owes something of his style and world view to his predecessors in Peking in ages past. Since we have now given up calling Communism a great international monolith, everywhere and always the same, it is high time for us to examine the Chineseness which is now showing through...