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...year was highlighted by a surprising victory over Princeton in the Big Three meet. At the half-way mark Shaw and Colburn were out of the lead and tired, but pulled back for third and fourth place finishes, followed by Heyburn in fifth. McCurdy, already excited by the varsity's win, called the freshman effort "the best, most courageous team victory I have ever...
...clubs strive to provide their members with the sensation of a man suspended half-way down in his swimming pool, breathing through an squalung--a sort of nullo-euphoria. The club that is most successful in denying the existence of a world outside is the Porcellian...
...government, the students are discovering, has met them half-way with a new two-year program. The college sophomore may devote six-week chunks of two successive summers to a leadership-oriented, genteel version of Basic Training, and in the next two years give up only enough time to take four half-courses in ROTC and two hours of drill each week. He graduates, spends two years in the service...
...half-way mark. Harvard held a half-length lead on the Penn squad which had beaten the freshmen by about two and a half lengths a week before. In the closing 500 meters as Penn began to challenge the Quaker cox called up the stroke to 39, surging past with a remarkable display of strength. After taking a length lead on the Crimson, Penn lowered the stroke and finished at a fairly ragged...
...Bunting told the meeting that the Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study has helped many women to complete educations that were "discarded half-way done." The Institute provides women with financial aid, Mrs. Bunting explained, and will even pay for babysitters...