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Almost anything can happen to a track meet. Stars may dip below the horizon for a brief period or for over, others may appear from nowhere to shine in all their brilliance for a week, only to fade back into oblivion. And so it was Saturday. Among the upsets was Columbia's Ben Johnson who was dethroned in the hundred, and failed to even qualify in the broad jump. Johnson's poor performance has been laid by some to a mental condition imposed upon him by the memory of a torn muscle acquired on the same track a year...
...noted as an authority on British history, particularly on the English revolutionary and religious movements of the 17th century. Before coming to Harvard he had taught at Cornell, Michigan, Dartmouth, University of Kansas, Chicago, and Yale. Among his works are "The Expansion of Europe", 1917; "Conflicts with Oblivion", 1924; "The New Barbarians", 1925; "A Bibliography of Oliver Cromwell", 1929; and "Adventures in Reputation...
...give remuncrative work to a few members of each House. At the same time the vital interests of the Houses will be consulted by having the Masters voice their approval of the intra-mural managers who are selected. In this way no House will be consigned to athletic oblivion through the appointment of incompetent or unpopular managers...
Real hero of None Shall Look Back is Nathan Bedford Forrest, guerrilla fighter whom Lee called the best cavalry leader in either camp, though they had never met (TIME, June 22, 1931). To rescue him from the half-oblivion in which he lurks as a semiliterate, half-savage raider, Author Gordon pens many a panegyric page, sometimes lets her feminine enthusiasm get the better of military idiom, as when she speaks of Forrest's horse as being "shot out from under...
Until yesterday we didn't think so. But today we do. For the undergraduates, judging by what we've heard, have sunk to a state of bestial oblivion as far as the bard is concerned, and Harvard Hall, despite the English department's effect to fill in the gap, is cold,-bare ruined choirs where late the sweet bird sang...