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...McGill team is an unknown quantity to Coach Jack Barnaby, but he observed yesterday that they have never beaten the Crimson. Barnaby added, however, that the varsity has not played McGill for two years and that squash is the most rapidly improving sport in Canada...
...Unknown Amherst Team...
Facing the Crimson will be an Amherst team, which because of the NCAA ban on early season scrimmages, remains something of an unknown quantity. Last year's strong Lord Jeff five defeated Harvard twice, once by 20 points; but only four lettermen and two starters remain from that squad...
...battle of Loos. Rudyard Kipling got letters from all the world, and some exulted in the mean thought that the laureate of war had got his comeuppance. As a member of the Imperial War Graves Commission, he promoted the patriotic symbol for the age of mass wars -the Unknown Soldier. His own son's body was never found...
Maurice de Sully was a practical dreamer with a vision almost as striking as that of another French provincial, Joan of Arc. Though his chiefs of staff were two unknown master builders, the grand design of Notre-Dame as it stands today was largely his. He raised the money (the cathedral eventually cost the 1955 equivalent of $100 million); he met the payroll and disciplined the work force (some 1,000 masons, metal smiths, carpenters, etc.); he personally selected leading artists and chose the subjects of the complex iconography. And he took fresh architectural gambles. The ceiling of Notre-Dame...