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...Harvard varsity lightweights avenged last year's man overboard loss to Navy as John Higginson's eight cruised home with its twelfth Haines Cup in 13 years, stroking through the Midshipmen and the UMass heavies on a fast, tailwind-aided Charles River on Saturday...
...other lightweight race of the day shaped up with the Harvard, Navy and UMass jayvees and the Crimson's 3V splashing it out in some nautical warfare. The 3V had already split up on Friday evening for a race in four-oared shells with a Navy four. The Midshipmen gunned down both Crimson boats in that encounter...
Last year's varsity boat did encounter some nautical competition from the midshipmen of Annapolis, in the form of a man overboard loss on the Severn River and a good scare from Navy at the Sprints. But by and large John Higginson's first boat easily motored through its opposition with a crew of sophomores and juniors...
...person is still unresolved. Chairman briefly became chairperson, but many now settle simply for chair, as in "she was the chair of the committee." The problem with person-policeperson, committee-person, showperson-is that it sounds ridiculous. The Naval Academy wisely insists that its women students will be called midshipmen. Person is still acceptable when used independently to designate either a man or a woman. When White House Press Secretary Ron Nessen mentions future Government appointees, he is very careful these days to speak of person instead...
Pyle glided to an easy 2:01.4 win in the 200 backstroke that put the meet out of reach of the Midshipmen with several events left to go. So in the last event, the Harvard coaches split the 400 free relay teams to even them out as well as possible and to let them race against each other. To make things interesting, each man on the relay put up a pint of ice cream on the outcome of the race...