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The Eliot crew glided to an easy victory in the final house race, held yesterday over a mile course in the M.I.T. Basin. Senior stroke Lowell Johnston kept the beat at an even 32 as the Elephant shell finished two and a half lengths ahead of any competition.
A heavy forewind sweeping the course at the start favored the Elephant oarsmen, who were in better shape than their competitors. The victory puts Eliot ahead of Dunster in the Straus trophy tally.
Having passed the duties of his office on to someone else, Perkins took a while to survey them. "You don't, in this job, do anything big and clean, like washing an elephant," he said; but he could obviously recall accomplishments which satisfied him just as much.
Looking back on it, Napoleon remembered the Egyptian campaign as "the most beautiful time in my life." He pictured himself, he wrote, "founding a religion, marching into Asia, riding an elephant, a turban on my head and in my hand the new Koran that I would have composed to suit...
The first test eliminated no one: each contestant transcribed from memory the score of a short composition right after he heard it played. Then, working with a list of approved works that included symphonic selections from the baroque to the contemporary, each was given the podium of the Symphony of...