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Applications for the incoming class established another new record for the College, reaching a total of 4,350. Last year, slightly over 4,200 students applied, and of this number 1,487 were accepted. The Admissions Office, apparently expecting an acceptance rate close to 1962's 73.8 per cent, was caught unaware by the high rate in the Class...
Outside the sports world, Dean Hanford called for course reduction and fewer hour exams, the College held its first transoceanic radio debate with Oxford, and President Lowell celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday. Soon to resign, Lowell could look back with pride on his record of educational innovation and reconstruction. Tutorials began to slowly increase contact of faculty member with student; the General Exams emphasized a carefully planned academic program of distribution and concentration; the House system helped to mold the "Old Harvard" into new patterns more suitable for the times; and the extensive building drive provided the room for growth...
...doubt as to the quality of this year's crew was dispelled last week when the varsity broke the downstream record in both its two time trials. On Wednesday it covered the four-mile distance in 18:50, and Sunday it clocked 19:16 under slightly slower, but still excellent, conditions. Downstream record for a race is 19:21:4, set by the 1948 Harvard crew while the previous time trial record, also set that year...
Although the varsity is favored on the basis of its record-breaking performances this year--it also holds the Charles River mark of 8:45 flat--the Elis have their normally strong crew. Undefeated before the EARC sprints where they finished third to the Crimson and Syracuse, Coach Jim Rathschmidt's men are playing themselves down but would like nothing better than to beat the Henley bound varsity...
Died. Edward A. Walsh, 78, one of baseball's great pitchers, whose dazzling spitball won 40 games in 1908; of cancer; in Pompano Beach, Fla. Walsh won an average of 24 games a season during his peak years (1906-12) with the Chicago White Sox, pitched a record total of 464 innings in one season, but was so overworked that he faded fast in his early 303. He never made more than $6,500 a year, and although elected to baseball's Hall of Fame in 1946, had to eke out a living on a pittance...