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...Pit. Yet the immense assurance of the age proved the key to its immense achievement. Sir Charles Petrie provides no such brief, brilliant survey as does G. M. Young's Victorian England. But if The Victorians' outlines are fairly wayward, its details are often engaging. And parts of it go farther than usual afield-to Victorian Ireland and Scotland, for example. Prostrated by the terrible famine of the '40s, Ireland became so needy that even the highborn stole food at the Lord Lieutenant's parties, while the people seethed and periodically struck out. Ireland, too, suffered...
Both squads will be near will-strength, Harvard missing only pole-vaulter Jay Mahaney who was injured Thursday landing in the Cage pit...
...varsity track team overwhelmed M.I.T., 76 1/2 to 27 1/2, last night, in an absolutely overwhelming meet in the Snake Pit. Coach Bill McCurdy was saving his front-line performers for Saturday's epochal clash with Manhattan, so the times, heights, and distances were none too great. But then, they didn't have...
...just a piece of live manure and he knows it. When he looks around after his drink and smiles at us, the world seems to be falling to pieces. It's a smile thrown across an abyss. The whole stinking civilization lies like quagmire at the bottom of the pit, and over it, like a mirage, hovers this wavering smile...
...test for the varsity comes on Dec. 16 against Manhattan. Fortunately the meet is in the local Snake Pit, which almost insures a Crimson victory...