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Immediately they rolled the class into high gear for the coming game against the blue-shirts of Yale: a soccer game, a special band rounded up by inter-dorm football manager B. G. Griscom, and a dance. Great was the disappointment when the Yalies showed under the optimistic freshman contingent 34 to 0 before 10,000 spectators...
...middle ground Derry Griscom's "Two Dimensions of the Sea" contains a good verbal and rhythmic description of the ocean in the first verse, but falters as the second verse slips into an apostrophe to a microcosmic dream. Keith Highet wrote "And In the Comment Did I Find Charm" within a somewhat limiting rhyme and meter scheme. The poem, like Peter Junger's "Two Kings" is innocuous, but pleasant. I trust that's all the writers intended...
...poetry pages, Derry Griscom's "What Passes Upon the Journey," not only rhymes but very nearly scans. The poem, however, grows more obscure in each verse and his fifth stanza is marred by a series of strained images. Peter Junger's four-line verse, "Billet Doux," is not obscure but its clarity is its only recommendation. Although erratic in its rhyming scheme, David Chandler's "The Paradox," shows a forceful imagination and a facile handling of his subject. The poem moves from earthy allegory to the metaphysical with a minimum of roughness...
...endeavors would thus mean 225 daily meals-but hawks are only around Cambridge between November and late March, Griscom explained. It is unlikely that they would pick Mem Hall as a place to nest, he added...
...Ludlow Griscom, Research Ornithologist, agreed with Randall that the Yard pigeons had little or nothing to fear-as a general group, that is. There are less than 50 duck hawks between Labrador and Massachusetts, Griscom said, and as for pigeons, "why they multiply almost to the fourth power...