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...secret that the Seventh is spoiling for another fray, "Who will be next?" is their battle...
...Conner that no score should be kept lest Statistician McNeil be compelled to leave the game and keep score on one of his beloved IBM machines. There were no individuals who could be cited for outstanding play; performance was uniformly good (or bad, depending on the point of view.) fray was softened by beer and cold perk. The beer was good; the food was good; and so it was decided by the ASOTS to remain at Harvard in spite of everything...
Sports Page: "Carney Pitches Midshipmen to Moral Vicory Over Supply School Officers." .. Courageously supported by a sterling infield, and what looked to this observer like a pennant winning battery, "Red" "Buster" "Big League" Carney pitched a band-up second inning ball game last Tuesday, almost winning his own fray with a .670 batting average. After seven (7) successive walks by a weary Supply School pitcher, the Middies rosily opened up to score five runs in the second inning. Another one-run rally in the fifth led the Carneyites to a moral victory in the seven inning thriller that made...
...Eleanor Roosevelt entered the fray, deplored company stores which "keep miners in hock forever...
...proved that unknown works can be a success, this proved that known quantities can be even more so. The Third Brandenburg Concerto in G Major is a tried and trusted quantity, although one might have wished for a few less strings than the Boston Symphony can throw into the fray at any time. Previously this year, more than competent performances of Thus Spake Zarathustra and Don Quixote were heard, but the Don Juan which followed can be spoken of only in glowing superlatives. Also heard during this hour and a half of musical ecstasy was an-almost-equal-to-Toscanini...