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...Harvard football has come full circle. The season of 1950 was as dismal as, in fact a shade dismaler than, the season of 1932. But where is the balm in Gilead unless it be spelled "b-o-m-b? Certainly not in this report, grinding up the feeble residue of self-esteem, that the Harvard debating team has sustained defeat at the hands of the forensic forces of the Massachusetts state prison...
...laden with airfield equipment were en route. The seven Moroccan fields were at Port Lyautey, Marrakech, Casablanca, Meknes, Rabat, Kourigha, Nouasseur. The incoming Americans would find the flat, sparsely wooded terrain ideal for military aircraft bases, but would run into difficulties with the heat (120° in the summer shade) and the housing (very tight...
There are indications, however, that the new Overseers' committee, which convened last weekend for the first time, represents more than one shade of alumni opinion. Part of the committee strongly asked Conant and Buck to ease admissions requirements and increase scholarships for would-be athletes. Reportedly this group later adjourned to the A. D. Club, where it also discussed such things as a demand for a review of all current coaching and training staffs...
...Vasquito (Little Basque), or Juancito (Johnny), each gang member had his own assigned wheel which he had studied thoroughly. The management routine of shuffling wheels apparently failed because the gamblers knew the wheels so well they could identify them by the tiniest mar or scratch, the faintest off-shade of color in the varnish...
...took just a shade over four minutes to run the Wanamaker Mile last January, but it took more than ten months to decide, beyond further appeal, who won. Last week, after polling a convention of its far-flung membership, the National A.A.U. hoisted its decision: Wisconsin's Don Gehrmann...