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With four members of last year's varsity eight forming the nucleus of a boat that has no visible weak spots, the Crimson lightweights-undefeated in intercollegiate competition the past two years-should be powerful again...
Last year, the administrators got wise. They split up the two leagues and formed three. One had the nucleus of the old City League-Latin, English, Tech, B.C. High. Another had the heavies from the District-Southie, Charlestown, Hyde Park, and East Boston, who, after all, skated pretty well for Italians...
...basketball game last Saturday at Brown, the girls formed the nucleus of the Harvard cheering section. "One of the things that is important in our program is enthusiasm," said basketball coach Bob Harrison, "and these girls are real peppy...
...Subtlety. By the early 1920s, investigations into the atom had struck an impasse. The old Newtonian laws could explain such motions as those of the planets around the sun; they could not account for the subtle behavior of electrons whirling around the nucleus of an atom. Trying to work their way out of this quandary, Born and other scientists held that the motion of the electron was discontinuous or broken into pockets of energy called quanta. Others conceived of electrons as continuous, uninterrupted waves. Though these theories helped explain atomic phenomena, they could not tell physicists where an individual electron...
...group of talented sophomores have combined their talents with those of the juniors who formed the nucleus of last year's team to get Harvard off to its fast start. The team has much more depth now, which allows swimmers who were overworked in last winter's meets to rest more in between their best events...