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Yale's librarian, obviously imbued with this spirit, serenades the students as they leave at closing time. "Taps" is followed by "Boola, Boolal" on a makeshift xylophone...
PRINCETON, N.J., Nov. 6--While two makeshift backfields were performing about equally, a superior Harvard line outplayed Princeton's here today to give the Crimson a 14-9 win--its first over the Tigers since 1946. Although it was as close and sloppy as the varsity's five previous games, the third victory was played in weather as perfect as the outcome. It was no day to be in Cambridge...
...cadets into the corridors, forced them to strip and dance an incongruous cancan. When the cadets were finally freed, they dashed off to the Eseuela Politecnica (Guatemala's West Point), aroused their fellow cadets and told them of the latest indignity visited upon the regular army by the makeshift militia with which Colonel Castillo Armas seized power from Guatemala's pro-Communist government five weeks...
...Nothing like That." The first fever of enthusiasm wore off in the inhospitable climate, makeshift poverty and poor housing of Kazakhstan. "We have tea, as much sugar as we want, but no place to buy a teapot," a pioneer told an Izvestia reporter. "Kerosene lamps are also a problem . . . and then, washing basins . . . pots to cook...
Renamed "The Makeshift Athletic Club" because of numerous early-season injuries, the varsity baseball team will meet a favored Boston College nine this afternoon at Chestnut Hill...