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Harvard did what it was expected to do, finishing solidly in third place (679.5), behind Princeton (1238.5) and Brown (996), and ahead of Yale (458). But for all four teams, the meet was really a rite of passage; a step from the comparative obscurity of the Ivy League to the forefront of Eastern collegiate swimming...
...Watson has a chore now, that of leading his team out of what has become an annual rite of passage--the stretch of games during reading period--and into its first over-.500 season in five years...
...picturesque Japanese island of Ikitsuki, where the ways of farmers and fishermen die hard, two old men squat before a home altar and chant prayers carefully entrusted to them by their ancestors. The ritual is intense and moving. But something is askew. The rite is partly Buddhist, partly Christian. The language sounds odd, a sort of pidgin Latin. And what do the ancient prayers mean? One of the worshipers admits, "I don't understand a word of this...
...SURELY as January means the coming of exams, a new year meant the return of the CRR debate. Many students here--especially freshmen, most of whom were about six years old when the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities was born--may not know the significance of this annual campus rite. But the CRR is potentially important to all of us, as are the lessons of the committee's troubled history...
...other identifying marks covered, of course. Lintgen simply holds a disc flat in front of him, turning it slightly this way and that and peering along its grooves through his thick glasses. After a few seconds he calmly announces, as the case may be, ''Stravinsky's Rite of Spring," or "Strauss's Alpine Symphony," or "Janacek's Sinfonietta...