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...trip, chronicled by Lipscomb père in Cutting Loose, was viewed by the boys as a lark. "All I wanted was to have fun," explained young Lipscomb. What he got was a lesson in growing up. The boys withstood the ocean in fine style...
Behind senior Tony Jenkins and Lou Silver, a 6 ft. 7 in. junior, the Crimson took a 41-39 lead with just 16 minutes to play in the second half and stayed out of the Lions' reach. Harvard withstood a last-minute rally by the Lions and held on for its 10th win in 22 outings...
...left; Harvard had possession of the basketball and a 59-53 lead. Then Rohan whistled to his team to apply full-court pressure. Sanders called for a freeze (a tactic that Penn and Princeton used effectively last weekend against the Crimson), and despite a few last-second jitters Harvard withstood the pressure...
...vistas of veldt and forest clearings-were painted by Francis Lee Jaques, the Illinois-born ornithologist and nature artist. Jaques, who died in 1969, at the age of 81, was also well known for his oil paintings and stark black-and-white drawings of wild life, and he cheerfully withstood Arctic cold and tropical heat to bring back such quarry on paper. To accompany many pictures (including 65 bird and animal paintings in color) Florence Page Jaques, the artist's wife, provides a fond account of her husband's enduring passion for the out-of-doors...
...Harvard withstood a last-minute surge of the Bruins poloists...