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...October 4, seven girls from Barnard and their pom poms will trot out on to Baker Field to encourage the Lions in their Ivy opener against Princeton. They will be accompanied by ten Columbia men and, as usual, by the student dressed in the Lion oufit...
...last two years, civil rights organizations sought to force the government to provide equal voting rights, to end officially-condoned discrimination in housing, jobs, and education. The organizations got no-where with the usual meetings and pamphlets. So in August, 1968, they began civil rights marches...
...second holiday, in August, marks the defeat of the Catholic King James II at Londonderry. This day began with only the usual August 12 trouble. Orange marchers taunted the Catholics down in Bogside with pennies, miniature cannons, and cobblestones. A few Bogsiders went to the parade route and taunted the marchers with cobblestones, bottles, and jeers. The police stood by and it seemed that they would wisely let the boys have their fun and all would go home at dusk. Most of Londonderry and Bogside went about a normal day's business...
This is a shame: the catalogue deserves better. Untold gems of intellectual satisfaction await those few undergraduates who each year devote hours to finding intriguing and pleasurable course offerings apart from the usual dull run. When these diligent readers complete their perusal of the catalogue, they can anticipate an exhilarating year staking out a claim on those fields of academic endeavor which lesser spirits unwittingly pass by. To distribute this satisfaction more equitably, we here present a collection of this year's catalogue's finest moments...
There is some ground for believing that the event is dedicated primarily to working up an even larger thirst than is usual Down Under. Last week's turnout of 4,500-half of them children -downed 3,360 pint bottles of beer, most of it sold from a bar sited in the center of the otherwise dry river...