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House athletics hit their stride this week with Inter-house softball games every afternoon, and yesterday the baseball league got under way when Dunster beat Kirkland in seven innings...
Cambridge Centennial festivities hit full stride last night with the Soldiers Field opening of the pageant "Pillars of Power," followed by a colorful fireworks display on the banks of the Charles River...
...ration-ridden British can take almost any kind of shortage in stride. One that they are at least beginning to lick is a serious shortage of clergymen. Two world wars have left the Church of England with a 4,000-minister deficit (not counting chaplains still in uniform...
Juleps & Blue Grass. Ever since Aristides took the first Derby (worth $2,850) in 1875, the race has been an exasperating, unpredictable grind. It comes early in the year, before most three-year-old colts (and fillies) have really begun to find their adult racing stride. The distance is a tough mile and a quarter for youngsters used to six-and seven-furlong sprints, with perhaps a couple of mile or iVio races under their hoofs. The Derby has ruined more promising horses than it has made...
...available, but, generally, war seems to have brought about a change in the outlook of many students, as evidenced in their choice of studies. Some who were practical-minded have grown idealistic; some of the idealists have become practical. A third group apparently took the stresses of conflict in stride, emerging matured but essentially unchanged...