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...takes a long time to mold a soccer team out of eleven individuals, but that goal appeared a little more attainable yesterday, when the Harvard booters outclassed Wesleyan, 6-2, in Middletown, Connecticut...
...first Harvard goal was a gift. Diminutive inside Bruce Detora, looking for a shot out in front, was fouled by an over-eager Wesleyan fullback, and the Crimson was awarded a penalty kick. Lutz Hoeppner, who normally takes the bonus shots, wasn't playing at the time, so center half Richie Hardy drew the call. Hardy, whose nonchalance is at times overwhelming, almost half-heartedly kicked the ball goalward, but it sailed past the goalie for the first Crimson tally in a week...
Strong goal-tending by Dick Locksley, playing for the injured John Axten, contained several Wesleyan threats in the third quarter as the hosts came out of the intermission raring to go. The Crimson fullbacks began to tire, though, and Wesleyan got on the scoreboard midway in the third period...
Saturday Harvard goes to Amherst to meet a much tougher foe, then next Wednesday the Crimson plays another of the East's best squads at Wesleyan. The first home game is with Boston University October 7. The Terriers are not a soccer power, and neither is M.I.T., the next home opponent...
Many colleges are receptive even to the specialized interests of a relatively small number of students. Thus Wesleyan's psychology department bowed to undergraduate requests for a course on "witchcraft and the occult." Among some 15 student-requested courses created at Stanford were seminars on "Ideology and Utopia" and "Anarchism and Fascism." The City College of New York is offering two courses on music of the Orient taught by Indian Sitarist Ravi Shankar, and, for the first time, an interdepartmental major in oceanography. The Political Science Club at Northwestern secured academic credit for students to work in Springfield...