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...their 24 foot Raven to an easy victory. During the second race, however, everything went wrong, the Crimson was forced to withdraw because of an infraction of the third race, at the end of the first day of racing Ford's crew was in third place, one pint behind Rhode Island and two behind arch-rival Yale...
Sunday, the wind was blowing from southwest at speeds approaching forty miles per hour. The Crimson had getting their sloop moving in the day's first race, and consequently finished third behind the previous day's leaders, Rhode Island and Yale. Harvard how fallen dangerously far behind in the point totals, and needed to do extremely well in the last three races in order to retain the championship...
...strong crew from the University of Rhode Island threatened the Crimson, in the first race, as its four boats started well and maintained a team lead until the last windward leg of the triangular course. But Lehmann, in first place, managed to slow down the second and third U.R.I. boats, letting Stookey slip into first and giving the Crimson...
While the Crimson faces strong competition from M.T.I. and Rhode Island in the "A" eliminations, the Coast Guard cadets will come to Cambridge for the "B" eliminations being held in M.I.T. boats...
...small-step "concepts'' to be mastered over a six-year period. A student may plod in math while simultaneously flying ahead in English. For dullards, it may take seven years to get a diploma. Whippets can finish in five years. Sidney P. Rollins, the education professor at Rhode Island College who devised the plan, calls it "a sophisticated version of the one-room schoolhouse...