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...Harvard riders never seemed to get used to the strange terrain of the Skidmore ring which was dry sawdust instead of the customary semi-packed dirt surface. Crisply hit shots rolled fifteen or twenty feet and sunk rather than flying across the arena. "It was terrible--we had to use our mallets like shovels to dig the ball out of the ground," Lodge said...
...last comment would not always have seemed snide. Fifteen years ago, the criticism in the following passage from The Quiet American, a novel many people feel prefigures the whole of the U.S.'s senseless devastation of Vietnam, would not have seemed painful. A Vietnamese woman named Phuong asks the British reporter, 'Are there skyscrapers in London...
...After fifteen years of relative mediocrity, college basketball is once again in the limelight. For the first time since 1970, the Columbia basketball team spent last week in sole possession of first place in the Ivy League, an exhilarating achievement that has galvanized Morningside Heights. The new-found success of the once lowly Lions has struck an upbeat note in that microcosm of a community surrounded by the basketball-crazed West Side, but it is only one facet of the resurgence of college basketball in New York City. New York has long been recognized as the cradle for collegiate basketball...
...philosopher Alain, who had exerted such a formative influence on her ideas about life fifteen years earlier, might have answered her plea with this definition of truth (paraphrased from his informal "doctrine" by Petrement): "an idea is not true by itself, independent of the thinker: it is not right to speak of a true idea but rather of true thoughts, of true men and women." Simone Weil lived this definition. And it may be that in the end she feld that only letting herself die could she continue to live her truth
...more statistical reading of the CHUL feelings against housing sophomores in Canaday, just look at the results of the straw votes the committee took on Wednesday. CHUL members were asked to rank their preferences among six alternative housing plans. Fifteen CHUL members listed immediate implementation of the Fox plan as their first choice; 13 said their first choice was implementation of the Fox plan in 1978-79. Only five members listed the North House plan, allowing freshmen to stay at the Quad Houses to retain freshmen, as a first choice, and two members said their preference was a plan...