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...seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the first three academic years were devoted to studying Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. In addition, freshmen studied arithmetic; sophomores, algebra, geometry, and trigonometry; juniors, natural science; and seniors, ethics and philosophy. Oratory and some history were taught all classes, and the textbooks were written in either Latin or Greek...
Playing number one, Perry Driggs lost an exciting match, two up. His Wesleyan opponent, a long hitter, was never more than one up on Driggs, and won on the seventeenth hole...
...courses dealing with historic periods rather than single authors are English 227, "The Elizabethan Stage," to be taught by Alfred B. Harbage, professor of English, and English 236, "Seventeenth Century Religious Prose," to be taught by Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature...
Captain Warren Iliff was three down with three to go and won all of the last holes, losing to Princeton on the nineteenth. Watt Tyler, playing seventh, lost to Princeton on the seventeenth hole. Iliff also lost to Brown, 2-1, while Tyler defeated his Brown opponent...
Holder tower looms high above the thick mud that clogs the cordovans and white sneakers. "Named in honor of Christopher Holder," the plaque reads, "a member of the Society of Friends in America in the seventeenth century, devout, loyal to duty, patient in suffering." Gargoyles leer down at the spectacle over the cloister arcade and from a phonograph stuck out the second-floor window of four entry the voice of a rock-and-roll singer blares fortissimo...