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After the first 5:25 mile, B.U. freshman standout Martha Shea and Crimson yardling Kate Wiley broke away from the pack for a thrilling head-to-head race to the finish line. Shea emerged victorious with a new meet record of 16:51; Wiley came in nine seconds later for a personal season...
...entrants of the race, Rhodes says the Bonne Bell "is just for fun," and the atmosphere at the Boston Common--where the race began and ended--was cheerful and supportive. Crowds lining Com- monwealth Ave. cheered on the runners as they finished the last leg of the 6.2 mile race...
...Lexington Center, and then down Rte. 2A into the middle of Concord. Go to the left of the Colonial Inn in Concord Center, take a right on Liberty St. and a left on Estabrook Road. This last is a dirt dead-end that stretches about half a mile; at its end are a farmhouse, and a sign that says, in the same quaint letters that mark Wadsworth House, or Massachusetts Hall, "Harvard University Forest." You expect a desk, with an old man to check bursar's cards on the way in and to make sure no one takes pine cones...
Concord has no mountains and this network of trails winds through what are at best hillocks. Half a mile away, on lower ground by the river, the first British dead of the Revolutionary War fell, and if this land was cleared then, you could have seen the brief battle. And if you had stood for a little while after the battle, you would have seen--so legend has it--a young boy, hired hand in a nearby farm, happen by, axe in hand, and dispatch a wounded Redcoat. The excesses of revolutionaries are not peculiar...
...killing yourself, working a mile a minute," says one operator who has worked the Harvard switchboards for more than 35 years, "and some kid comes on and says 'Where were you, operator, knitting?' You don't say anything to them, of course, but you just feel like tearing your hair...