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...interesting to note that the CRIMSON, which has editorially opposed the "Regatta Weekend" and its accompanying "rah-rahism," should have taken it upon itself to sponsor Pogoism. If we assume that "the social unsolidarity" of which the CRIMSON speaks is at least partially a good thing, then the growth of a movement, over three thousand strong, which sports Pogo buttons and chants "I go Pogo" on public occasions must be considered a dangerous phenomenon. The importance of Pogoism is not merely as another manifestation of the growth of mass "rah-rah"; it is possible that this movement may be dangerous...
...second and far more dangerous innovation is so called "Regatta Weekend." We might ignore the emergence of straw hats connected with this "weekend," hoping that like the Confederate caps of yesterday month they would pass away and not turn us into a replica of a certain college in the New Jersey mud flats. We might even overlook the massing of more than a sixth of the College into a gymnasium where for an exorbitant price a student was permitted to transport himself and one friend through a dark steamy atmosphere for the better part of four hours; that...
...Deacons with a three and one record are also loaded with experienced oarsmen and stroked by Randy Harrison. Dunster, stroked by John Hart has beaten only Leverett while the Bunnies have lost to all the competing crews in today's regatta. However the Bunnies did win the consolation race by defeating Lowell Adams and Dudley and thus qualified to row in the finals...
When invincibles meet, somebody has to give, and this time it was Harvard. For the first time since 1937 the previously invincible Crimson varsity grew lost the Adams Cup to Navy, and finished third behind the Middies and Penn in Saturday afternoon's regatta on the Charles. It was Navy's fourth consecutive victory of the season, and puts Rusty Callow's oarsmen in prominent contention for the U.S. Olympic berth...
Rowing the entire mile and five-sixteenths at the very high stroke of 34 and closing with a final sprint, the Penn varsity lightweight boat nipped Harvard by two seconds to win the Joseph Wright Trophy in the E.A.R.C. regatta Saturday at Princeton...