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...Dick Harlow had hardly any material in the fall, with a death of veterans and fewer coaches. He molded a team which people called a fighting team, but it didn't win many. The last-second, 19 to 14 victory over Princeton, strictly in pre-war tradition, compensated for a lot of things, but not for the heart-breaking, 7 to 3 loss to Yale on a rainy afternoon at New Haven. It's tough to lose the last one, somehow, especially the last one for a long while...
...that time things had collapsed all over the place. Dick Harlow wore a lieutenant commander's uniform, and Lyal Clark was commissioned, and then Tom Bolles left. The athletes were trailing out, too, and Jaakko Mikkola watched the best prospective track team in Harvard history leave. College to enter the services. He didn't even wince...
Says famed Astronomer Harlow Shapley in the introduction: "Our success in war and peace depends not on luck, or rhetoric, or the intervention of mythical gods; it depends on human character and modern scientific creations, and on respect for the meaning and methods of science. . . . It is not luck but logic which in the present and future will win-the careful and logical consideration of what effects come from specific causes, what are the natural reasons behind events, what are the processes required to adapt nature to the material and spiritual advantages of mankind...
...candidates have been exposed to much new and interesting technique under Lamar's tutelage besides getting a slant on the Harlow system. Major athletic credit is given those who attend the educational movies that are shown when weather does not permit practice...
Newly-elected president of the Harvard chapter of Sigma Xi, Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the College Observatory, acted as chairman for the meeting...