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...this year the situation is some-what different. Harvard--like Yale--has been eliminated from the championship race and is currently tied with the Elis for third place in the league standings...
...bottom of the sixth, enormous bolts of lightning made the game some-what hazardous, and a heavy rain made it impossible to continue. After the sky cleared up briefly, the players rounded out the bottom of the sixth before an empty grandstand. YALE AB R H RBI Sewall, 3b 2 0 0 0 Bartlett, cf 3 0 0 0 Raymond, lf 3 2 1 0 Hunsaker, 1b 3 0 3 1 Levick, rf 2 0 0 0 Titus, c 3 0 1 1 Grasso, 2b 3 0 0 0 Cody, ss 2 0 0 0 Bourne...
Wilkins' calm and calculating manner is some-what unnerving. But this man, who has devoted forty years to getting things done, keeps his passions well below the surface. His pride is deep enough so that he does not have to swallow it when he must compromise. He is a steady and persistent man, with a shrewd understanding of people. Wilkins knows the facts of political life; if his placid exterior disturbs those who believe his cause demands anger, it is indispensable when, says, a conservative legislator must be cajoled into supporting a civil rights bill. Wilkins inspires respect and profound...
...inhalation of nitrous oxide made Hegelian philosophy some-what comprehensible--wonder of wonders!--to James. "What reader of Hegel," he writes, "can doubt that the sense of a perfected Being with all its otherness soaked up into itself, which dominates his whole philosophy, must have come from the prominence in his consciousness of mystical moods. . .? The notion is thoroughly characteristic of the mystical level, and the Aufgabe of making it articulate was surely set to Hegel's intellect by mystical feeling." The bizarre consequences of the Hegelian system when applied to brute Anglo-American "facts" tend to vanish...
...currently 1137 foreign students enrolled at Harvard. Of these, only 125 are undergraduates--within this relatively small bloc, isolation is quite often overcome by the mere existence of the dormitory and House systems. Contacts are easily made, activities are easily entered, and the notion of being a foreigner is some-what overshadowed by the "esprit" of belonging to the residential unit...