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Jumping has been the Crimson's enigma since the week before the Dartmouth Carnival when Nordic captain Chris Ferner and number two jumper Jim Platz quit the team. Ferner is one of the East's top jumpers, but neither he nor Platz felt motivated to compete on the carnival circuit this season...
...Harvard ski team, weakened by the absence of Nordic captain Chris Ferner, faltered to a last place finish in the Dart-mouth Winter Carnival last weekend...
...works of Richard Wagner are not played in Israel because of the composer's personal notions of Nordic supremacy. Richard Strauss, too, goes unheard, largely due to the fact that he held an official title under the Nazis. As a Jew, Arnold Schoenberg had no such racial or political taint. His Violin Concerto, written in 1936 and long considered a classic of atonal music, was simply too "modern" and too unmelodic for the Israel Philharmonic's public, many of whom believe that real music may have stopped with the arrival of Stravinsky. "We come to the concerts tired...
...encouraging Alpine situation is somewhat offset by a question mark in the Nordic events. Nordic captain Chris Ferner, the team's only Class A Nordic competitor, has yet to jump this year and in McCollom's words, "just isn't fired...
...Certainly we're doing better than last year in the Nordic events," McCollom said. "We have to improve though, if we plan to do anything in the Carnivals...