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...Seventeenth century England was much taken by Sir Walter Raleigh's description of an American demi-Eden where it was forever either spring or summer. This balmy land of the blest, he said, lay on the 35th parallel of north latitude-in present-day North Carolina. Rallying to Raleigh, for whom North Carolina named its capital, Southerners have ever since believed in their hearts that their region is kindlier, lovelier and more conducive to the good life than any other patch of earth this side of paradise, and not without reason...
...twentieth anniversary of my involvement with the Harvard Summer School of Arts and Sciences and of Education, and my seventeenth year as Director. The experience has been profoundly satisfying and never routine: a new school each year, but with a basic continuity; the interesting decade of the sixties and the new challenge of the seventies have been fully registered on the Summer School. I have had a strong, loyal and creative staff with minimal turnover in key positions. I have enjoyed the cooperation and friendship of members of the Faculties of Arts and Sciences and of Education throughout my tenure...
Senior Bobby Thompson carded a 79 while playing number two to make him Harvard's medalist. Thompson's clutch holes were the seventh and the par three 160-yard seventeenth. On the seventh, a par four, he split the narrow fairway with a 4-wood off the tee and gouged a wedge that skipped up against the flagstick. He bladed an eight iron for his second ringer of the day but missed the birdie putt...
Raffel raced to his best time this year in the 200-yd. freestyle. He finished a respectable seventeenth in a tough field of more than 50 competitors...
Captain Bill Okerman and freshman Peter Levine tied for fifteenth place overall (23:08) while Stein Rafto (23:14) and Jamie Kiggen (23:53) claimed the seventeenth and twenty-first places respectively...