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Brown had beaten Penn, 5-2, and barely lost to Yale, a traditional Ivy power. Yet, if Tom Wynne's opponent at number six had not sunk a long putt on the 18th hole to win 1-up, the Harvard team would have blanked the Bruins. Of the other Crimson golfers, only Roger Wales (seven) had difficulty, winning in a 19th hole play...
...Bennett, "too much of the endowment is restricted," whether to supporting specific scholarships, filling certain professorial chairs or financing one or another of the graduate schools. Moreover, there is $30 million of special investments, which cannot even be invested with the rest of the endowment. They must be sunk into specific areas--one block, for example, must be invested in the steadily declining world of railroad bonds. The unrestricted alumni contributions that come in each year are thus essential to the University's financial well being...
...awesome power to capsize the dingies and rowboats where we have stored the dearest values of our civilization, and if he sends them down with a chuckle, they are none the less sunk. Thus "The Last Flower" is superbly comic, and a model for the integration of verbal and visual art - but the theme is that humankind is doomed to periodic and violent disruption succeed by regeneration...
...strange play. Dartmouth's Gunnar Malm went up for a shot, but was stuffed by the Crimson's Paul Waickowski. This upset Malm immensely, and he chose to say something improper about the noncall to the referee. Dartmouth was charged with a technical foul, and Royer sunk the tying point...
...credit-starved housing industry has sunk proportionately faster and fur ther in 1966, compared with where it stood a year ago, than the whole...