Word: meetness
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Harvard's varsity track team will be one of three co-favorites in the 35th annual Heptagonal track and field championships Saturday at Philadelphia. Defending champion Yale and perennial powerhouse Army will be the other top contenders in the meet, which will include the eight Ivy League schools plus Army and Navy...
Yale has a commanding lead in the overall Heps standings, having won 13 times, compared to seven each for runners-up Harvard and Army. In last year's meet, the Eli's were picked to place no better then third, behind the Crimson and the Cadets, but outstanding performances in the running events, coupled with a Harvard-Army standoff in the weight events, allowed the Bulldogs to edge Army by one point...
...Crimson, while going into the meet with the best team record, 4-0, must do well in the weight and distance events to stay in contention for the championship. Yale, 4-2, is again expected to shine in the running events and has the potential to place in some of the field events, usually a weak spot for the Elis...
...Weight and running events result in a standoff, the jumping events could be the deciding factor in the meet. Leading the squad will be high-jumper Jim Coleman, triple jumper Walter Johnson, and pole vaulter Pete Lazarus, all of whom surpassed or equalled personal records last week...
Miss Hodes quotes Professor Sacks' reference to the intruders as "barbarians." This may have been rather loose use of the term. On the other hand, the chairman of the meeting, Professor Pool, was precisely in point when, as he adjourned the meeting, he recalled the disruption of German universities in the 1930s and labeled the intruders "stormtroopers." Undoubtedly, as Miss Hodes says, the bulk of the intruders were students somewhere. A few, I know, were Harvard students. That they presumably had some intelligence makes all the more inexcusable their blatant violation of the right of others to meet together peacefully...