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John Hammond, at the Performance Center this week, is a top-flight musician who dabbles with all sorts of material--lots of bluesy stuff, especially--and, for some reason, never seems to have hit it big. However, the real cognoscenti know he's good, and his show sounds definitely worth catching...
...1860s there was a big controversy here over whether Harvard should be just a top-flight college or just a grad school, and President Eliot made a landmark speech, saying that Harvard should be both. We have the same kind of problem facing us now, except that the conflict is between elitism and populism. And again, we've got to have both...
Very few track teams look bad on paper. Even the worst clubs always have a couple of speedy quarter-milers, or at least a handful of top-flight jumpers. However, unless Princeton is holding a few runners in storage in that Jadwin Gym of theirs, it looks like Coach Edgar Stowell's Harvard thinclads will chalk up their first dual meet victory of the season today...
...drawing boards is where Harvard should go, to come up with some plans for a new swimming pool before the year 2000. Essick has in John Walker one of the best diving coaches in the country, yet it is an almost impossible task for Walker to attract top-flight divers to Cambridge given the lack of depth of the IAB pool. All things being equal, the difference between Princeton's 14 feet of chlorinated water and Harvard's 11 feet is a helluva lot more than three feet...
...arrival of a top-flight diving coach, John Walker, and two time Eastern prop diving champion, freshman Dave English, may make the Crimson diving both more palatable to watch and more productive on the scoreboard. Junior John Zakotnik, who came on strong late last year, continues to improve rapidly and the English-Zakotnik combination may have the talent to sweep several meets...