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...varsity win was not much of a surprise. Minutes earlier, Cabot's JV's had crushed Columbia by seven lengths--the biggest margin of the afternoon and a remarkable one for such a short distance. Stroke Galen Brewater's galiant sprit effort--with Columbia lengths behind and nearly out of sight--brought a roar of approval from the crowd lining the shore...
...Woman, who swept aside the Victorian double standard, which was partly based on the almost universally held notion that women-or at any rate, ladies-did not enjoy sex. One eminent doctor said it was a "foul aspersion" on women to say they did. The celebrated 2nd century Physician Galen was (and is) often incompletely quoted to the effect that "every animal is sad after coitus." Actually, as Kinsey pointed out, he had added the qualification, "except the human female and the rooster." Siding with Galen, women claimed not only the right to work and to vote, but the even...
...earthly representative. In Der Stellvertreter, Hochhuth contrasts papal silence with the action of Denmark's King Christian, who helped forestall Nazi persecution by vowing to wear the Star of David if his country's Jews had to, and with Munster's Bishop Clemens August von Galen, whose fiery sermons ended the Nazi euthanasia campaign in his city...
Stroked by sophomore Galen Brewster, the varsity lightweights jumped ahead at the start of the final, but couldn't hold their lead. Losing ground, the Crimson upped the stroke at the 1000-meter mark but Cornell and M.I.T. slowly pulled out in front...
Shortly afterwards, sophomore stroke Galen Brewster upped the stroke for the sprint and finished at a 38 in 6:35.5, three-quarters of a length ahead of Princeton, who was clocked in 6:36.6, Yale, who stayed with Harvard only at the start, finished three lengths behind the Tigers...