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While the hockey team may have been to some observers a disappointment, the basketball team was a pleasant surprise as it forged to a 16 and 9 record and finished fifth in a strong Ivy League. Led by Captain Dick Woolston, Monk Muncaster, and Bryant Danner, the Crimson five had its most successful season in ten years. A victory over Yale in the last game of the year would have given the quintet a tie for third in the Ivy League, but Johnny Lee and Larry Downs scored 78 points between them to sink the varsity, 105-87. The quintet...
Some of a Zen pupil's meditation is devoted to koans -short problems without logical solutions, set by the individual's Zen master and designed to wrench the mind free of ordinary thinking. (Sample koan: "A monk asked. 'Who is Buddha?' The master answered, 'Three pounds of flax.' ") Other meditation is devoted to breath control, plus a kind of concentration on nothingness and what Ruth Sasaki describes as "handling one's mind...
...Confessions. The Augustinian monk named Martin Luther had no intention of founding Lutheranism-either in fact or in name. In 1522. when some of his followers referred to themselves as Lutherans, he wrote: "Please do not use my name; do not call yourselves Lutherans, but Christians . . . The doctrine is not mine; I have not been crucified for anyone . . . Why should I, a miserable bag of worms, give my meaningless name to Christ's children?'' Only later, when Roman Catholics used the term as an insult, did Luther consent to let his name be applied to those...
Tonight's game will be the last for three of the varsity's most effective big men, graduating seniors Monk Muncaster, Chuck Wolle, and captain Dick Woolston. Arnie Singal, a senior reserve who has played very well on occasion, will also be missed next year...
...York, he added, is a fine place for hermits. "We are so impressed with the eremitical tendencies we see here," he said. "In our hermitage each monk lives alone in his hut, pursuing his own way or meditating in silence. But in Italy community life is very communal. An Italian who gets on a train introduces himself to his fellow passengers and states his business. The others do the same. Then follows a discussion of each one's affairs...