Word: springs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, the guerrillas' 105th brigade attacked government positions near Florina. It might be a diversionary attack to harass Greek army groups successfully mopping up Red pockets in central Greece, or it might be the beginning of a major spring offensive by the Communists. At any rate, the Greek army, which has heeded Soldier Van Fleet's advice, was ready. The attackers at Fiorina were driven back, with government troops in hot pursuit...
...societies do nothing at all, except make mysteries of themselves, behind the bronze doors and windowless walls of their New Haven "tombs." But it has never prevented Yale juniors from hoping that they too will feel a hand fall on their shoulders at the traditional tap day each spring. To be one of the 15 men elected each year to each of Yale's six societies is still the ultimate in campus recognition...
Dinghy sailors can always find a race somewhere. The Intercollegiate Yacht Racing Association conducts a host of regattas in the fall and spring, and in the winter the Marblehead and other "frostbite" races never fail to lure hardier college yachtsmen, some of whom insist on racing in shorts...
...spring is full of minor regattas, special invitational regattas, and championship regattas. Harvard has entered most of them and has usually wound up in second place. Yale has proved unbeatable this year, and in the several races not entered by the Elis, Harvard has been edged...
Yale, despite a dearth of boats of its own, is represented this year by two junior sailing champions, Bobby Monetti and Bobby Coulson. It is because of these two men that the Eli is having such a frolic in sailing competition this spring...