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President Mary I. Bunting of Radcliffe conferred the Bachelor of Arts degree on 290 members of the Senior class yesterday morning, as threatening skies and wet benches forced Radcliffe's 81st commencement exercises into Sanders Theatre...
...varsity lacrosse team slogged through snow, rain, and sleet in Hanover yesterday, but got little more than wet feet for its efforts. Dartmouth downed the Crimson 13 to 7, ending whatever hopes Harvard retained for a respectable finish in the Ivy League...
...looks like a sad sack, but to the female wearer it has advantages. Depending on the wearer's particular problem, she may either remain beach-bound, confident that her figure will go undetected under such bulk, or plunge headlong into the sea, secure in the knowledge that a wet blouson clings like Saran Wrap; one fast ocean dip and what was hidden is made spectacularly manifest...
...near dead-heat finishes in the distance races provided most of the excitement in the long and wet afternoon. In the two-mile, Bill Crain and Eddie Meehan far outdistanced their opposition and walked across the finish line together. Holy Cross's Tom Noering nosed out Meehan in the half-mile, though both runners were given times of 1:58.9, surprisingly good under the miserable conditions. John Ogden and Crain also did well, leading teammate John Miller in an easy sweep of the mile. Holy Cross won the 440 and the mile relay...
...lines and scattered smears of color that they presage modern abstractions. "Nature alone counts, and the eye is trained through contact with her." Cézanne wrote. Hour after hour, facing the warm vistas of Provence, his eye sounded the depths of nature, and, dipping his brush into his wet colors, he deposited the traces of color that are the record of a contact with nature more direct than most men ever know or envisage...