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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Turning in a fine performance for their absent coach, Hal Ulen, who was sick with the fin. Harvard's mermen took nearly every event in the swimming meet at M. I. T. last Saturday night. Against weak competition from Tech the Harvard squad dropped only two races to the down-stream team...
Outstanding were the performances of J. E. Curtin, Jr. V-12 (Harvard), who pulled up from behind in the 300-yard medley and the 200-yard breast stroke and that of Harvey Pastel, V-12, who had a close contest with Hun of Tech, winner of the diving event in last years meet. The final score in last Saturday night's competition being 75 points for Pastol...
Although no records were set, the team looks good for future dates, despite the handicap of limited opportunities for practice because of crowded conditions in the Indoor Pool. Next event on the squads card are the intra-mural races against the Army team on Carnival Night, February...
...marks a major event in U.S. cultural history. For George Santayana, author of 23 books that have been authoritatively described as the most exquisite philosophical literature ever composed, is the first U.S. thinker whose work and life link the cultures of North and South America and interweave them with the old romantic culture of Spain. Readers may make their own decisions as to how important that work is now. But ever since Longfellow mastered Spanish, since Irving wrote his studies of old Spain, and tireless Prescott, grey, half-blind, burrowed into Spanish archives to write his histories, the works...
...Russia keeps sports humming. This winter's program, the most ambitious since the war, opened New Year's Day in Moscow's huge (capacity 75,000) Dynamo Stadium. Men skaters raced for prizes offered by the newspaper Red Sport. Figure skaters gave exhibitions. But the main event was a hockey match between two of Russia's crack sport clubs, the Dynamo and Spartak Societies...