Word: sport
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Undefeated in Ivy League play, the Crimson team looks better on paper than the Tigers, who sport only a 2-2-1 record in Ivy competition. But Harvard has not won over Princeton since 1957 and the Tigers might well spoil the varsity's chance for an unbeaten season and a bid to the NCAA championships in St. Louis later this month...
With the fall sports season drawing rapidly to a close, no House has yet clinched a championship in any team sport. Soccer will be decided by the Eliot-Dunster contest next Tuesday, but special play-offs will probably be necessary in both tackle and touch football...
...Maharajah of Cooch Behar, she was educated at India's Santiniketan University, in Switzerland and England. As the Maharajah of Jaipur's third wife (the first two are dead), she is a celebrated figure at international spas, loves polo, shot 27 tigers before she retired from the sport because "I feel sorry for the animals." Now, as candidate, she neglects her custom of riding out in a monogrammed white Jaguar at 7 a.m. to exercise her husband's 18 polo ponies, spends the time instead writing campaign speeches and running four secretaries ragged with dictation...
...Fanciulla opens, a crowd of gold miners surges into the Polka ("A Real Home for the Boys"), order "veeskey" and proceed to drink a toast ("Veils Fargo!" shouts one sport; "Ip! ip!" reply the miners). The most unpopular man in the place is Sheriff Jack Ranee, who divides his time between lusting after Minnie, the Polka's owner, and pursuing a bandit named Ramerrez. In Act I, Minnie falls in love with Dick Johnson, a stranger in the Polka, invites him up to her place on the mountain only to learn in Act II that he is Ramerrez. When...
...from College dining halls, at the very time that tickets for The Game are usually distributed. Absence from the College on the day following Thanks-giving is a strong, if unofficial, undergraduate tradition. The University need not officially condone such leave-taking, but it might for once be a sport. One hopes that the Department of Athletics, not always alert in these matters, will start grinding its mills a little faster and make student tickets available earlier in the week...