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Harvard continued to add to its point total in the 1500 when senior Adam Dixon and Sheehan took first and second, respectively. Huskie Jim Sargeant had the lead as the trio went into the gun lap. Coming around the last turn. Sheehan put on a burst of speed and passed Sargeant. But, just as Sheehan nabbed the lead. Dixon put on his usual explosive kick and passed both of them to win the race with a time...
...dash--1. Ward (BU) 1:11.39: 2 Kirk (BC): 3. Murrer (H): 4. Higgins (NU): 5. Ward (NU). 880-yd. run--1. Bunney (H) 1:52. 18:2. Vona (BU): 3. MacKinnon (NU): 4. Higgins (H): 5. Curtin (Brandeis). 1000-yd. run--1. Fischer (BU) 2:11:32. 2. Sargeant (NU): 3. Sheehan (H): 4. Walter (BC): 5 Kovach...
Though The Widower's Sons falls far short of that earlier mark, it still captures the individual class-struggle that is Sillitoe's strength. His latest book deals with William Scorton, a sargeant major's son, who through relentless work and discipline, rises to the rank of colonel and marries a brigadier's daughter. England's Great Depression era army becomes his life, starting when his widowed father drills him in cartography at the age of seven and ending with the disintegration of his civilian marriage over 30 years later...
William's relationship with his father compensates for this weakness. The sargeant-major joined the army after surviving a coal mine accident in which his best friend slowly died. After campaigns in India, Africa and Europe, he comes back to his mining town still practicing army life. As is so often the case of frustrated fathers, he channels his ambitions into his son, determined he will learn trigonometry in order to be a gunnery officer and French in order to be a gentleman. Sillitoe's literary talents are fitted to this type of relationship...
...Sargeant Cheever '32, director of admissions at Harvard Medical School, described the current situation as "anomalous. There are about 8000 foreigners allowed into this country annually. We have quite enough doctors of our own to go around. I think it's a bit unfair," he said yesterday...