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DEATH OF THE FOX by George Garrett. 739 pages. Doubleday...
...around page 500 of this novel about Sir Walter Raleigh's last years, the reader is fending off the fine words with his free hand and shouting "Enough!" And yet ... and yet ... (as Novelist Garrett, whose prose is measled with portentous dots, might write) the gaudy style is grounded in intelligence, and it fits the character and the times. Raleigh, the last Elizabethan, had swagger and intelligence in excess. That being so, it was wise of the author to be liberal; excess carefully spooned would be absurd...
...shucks," Crimson president Garrett Epps said. "I could have had the first shutout in my administration. Now I'm just another president...
Rowing what coach Garrett Olmsted called an "extremely fine race", Radcliffe, competing in the intermediate eights, finished the twisting, choppy three-mile course in 19:17.6, almost two minutes ahead of the MIT boat. A crew from Winthrop House, liberally sprinkled with varsity rowers, was the eventual winner in the same race, but Olmsted noted that "Radcliffe was only a couple of seconds behind the last boat of men, and was definitely in the race...
...highlights of the afternoon will be the entry of two women's eights in the intermediate eights. Both Radcliffe and MIT will enter the competition. Radcliffe, under the coaching of Garrett Olmsted, finished fifth in the Women's Nationals last spring...