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Tourists stream in and out of the Square all summer clambering off buses for an obligatory look an John Harvard's statue (and an obligatory snapshot of girlfriend in lap of same). They find a climate that can only be described as oppressive (though geographically the city is in the temperate zone the weather here is tropical for most of the summer). Last year, when record temperatures' plagued the area for weeks, many of the tourists took their pictures through the tinted windows of their air-conditioned Greyhounds. The only relief is water; hence the city hospital daily treats patients...
Unfortunately for Harvard, the breaks went against Dixon in Detroit. Hampered by painful blisters on his left foot and a board 11-lap track with tight turns. Dixon clocked 4:03.97--two seconds off the winning time...
...meter finals, just into the last lap, senior co-captain Mare Chapus was tripped up by Penn's Jeff Hill. Almost as soon as he hit the track, Chapus was on his feet again, but his momentum and his excellent position--"in front of the little guy from Penn," as Chapus put it--were gone...
Swimming a strong, technically perfect race, Gildea let Zimic and Eli Courtney Ellis go out fast and battle for the lead before she made her move. With 12 laps to go in the 40-lap race, Gildea caught up to and passed the faltering Zimic, and then worked on closing the gap between herself and Ellis--eventually finishing 14 seconds behind Ellis' AIAW National qualifying time...
...Harvard--there really would be a Harvard Band concert on the Red Line, and that Tommy Murray really would be able to sit in his own little corner of locker room 11, surrounded by cameras, microphones and well-wishers with the silver Beanpot trophy resting firmly on his lap, "probably for a while...