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Whether or not the Engineers can wield a bat as well as they manipulate a slide rule remains to be seen, but on the strength of their output to date, Harper's charges must be rated favorites. After a shaky start, the Jayvees have found the range at the plate; pitching has been superb; and fielding has been more than adequate...
Bill Rickenbacker, Ozzie Keiver, Linc Kinnicutt, Sam Seager, Dick Drury, and Herb Mee will wield the sticks for the home team, aiming to win their sixth straight victory, this time over a team that Dartmouth whitewashed last week at Amherst's own links...
Just about everybody who can wield a stick will be playing lacrosse this afternoon. The varsity is tackling M.I.T. here at 4 o'clock, the Jayvees are prefacing the main event with a contest against the Narragansett Lacrosse Club slated for 3 o'clock, and the Freshmen are meeting Andover away...
Many Harvard AVC members wield their influence elsewhere around the College, but when they do, they speak as individuals, not as AVC representatives. Its New England Regional Chairman, Arnold Rivkin, is also co-founder of the Law School group for Douglas, while State AVC Chairman Andrew Rice 2G is a member of the National Executive Committee for Eisenhower. Manny Margolis (Wallace) and Hale Knight (Stassen) are two others active within the AVC fold...
...because it is afraid the final result will somehow be less than perfect. Others complain that the whole recovery problem should go to the United Nations, where they hope that the Russians would be persuaded to agree with us. Still another powerful school of thought holds that we must wield European aid as a political weapon first and foremost, and that any possible economic benefits to the nations concerned are of relative unimportance. And there are only a few steps between this position and the belief that a so-called "preventive" war can alone preserve...