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Something well worth staying away from is the annual Wet Down ceremony in the spring. The senior class forms a double column across the commons and all the juniors, sophomores, freshmen, and campus wheels in that order run the gauntlet of flailing leather belts. As each bruised figure reaches the end of the line, he joins in to wreak vengeance on those behind. "Thus do freshmen become sophomores," writes the Daily Dartmouth...
...Barring wet weather, the contest may well be decided on the basis of which team forces the other to play its game. A win for the Crimson would place it in strong contention for Eastern Intercollegiate soccer honors; for West Point is a predominantly veteran team which last year rated as second only to Dartmouth in this section of the country...
Halsey had unbosomed even more perilous confessions. A non-believer in the strict Navy regulations against liquor aboard ship, he had carried 100 gallons of bourbon for his pilots. Said the Admiral: "To a man who has just had a tense, hazardous flight or a wet watch there is no substitute for a tot of sound spirits, as the Royal Navy well knows...
...completed in time for November's UNESCO conference, and all around Rivera's paunchy figure carpenters and electricians bent noisily to the presidential will. But Rivera's own share of the work, he at last decided, was done. An assistant handed him a round brush wet with yellow paint, and Rivera quickly added a few touches. Then he thrust his soft little hands into the pockets of his dungaree jacket and walked away. He was bone-tired but content. At 61, when everyone had said he was slipping, he had felt himself at a new peak...
...Moscow, a slow city, solemn friendly (when its masters permit it) and relatively clean-especially near the center. Dirt increases in direct proportion to distance from the Kremlin. Not even last week's ceremonial ablutions could douse Moscow's habitual smell-a musty and ageless compound of wet plaster, cabbage and inadequately dressed furs. Not even last week's hectic carnival rumpus could exaggerate the Muscovites' devotion to their white-walled, golden-headed city...