Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Entering the relay one point behind the Lowell House team spurted, led by anchorman Dan C. Hamilton '41, while Eliot fell behind Kirkland to lose all their lead. Other closely contested events included the 1000-yard run taken by R. L. Wing '40, of Lowell House, the 300-yard run won by Hamilton, and the pole vault captured by H. P. Minot '41 of Eliot House...
...beaten by Princeton, 61 to 14, but Washington and Jefferson lost to the sailors, 61 to 44. Of the two scores the former shows most convincingly just what is to be expected from the Annapolis affair. Navy's only first came in the dive won by Gibson with 123.9 points. He defeated Rusty Greenhood last year with 113 points, and opened his season this year with a 123-point performance against W. and J. But in view of Greenhood's 124 points against the Providence Boys Club Wednesday, the contest ought to be about as close as can be. Miller...
...Vagabond will at last return to serious business. Having completely emerged from The Depths, he is planning to wander up to the Music building and hear more about a composer who has fascinated him. He has heard that the Music 1 devotees have arrived at that point; he knows (off the record) that, among other things, the last movement of the Second Symphony will be played before the hour is over; and he wants to see if that certain student with the incredible laugh is still spicing the proceedings with his outbursts of merriment...
...seems that when the genus home finally became a biped instead of a monkey, the tendency in battle was not to grab a meat axe, but to wrestle. Gradually the set-to between cavemen grew into an activity practiced for amusement's sake. The sport reached a high point in development with the Graeco-Roman method in the west and the Oriental style in the east...
From a strictly literary point of view the book is consistently fine. Although much of the material is of a rather technical nature, the reader's interest never lags. Particularly effective is the chapter dealing with the heroic campaign of the English in Belgium. Nowhere does the futility of war seem more apparent than in this account of the British loss of 100,000 lives for the sake of retaining a few square miles of disease-infested swampland...