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Potent Brew. The excursion into the past is not confined to a single event. Many society members belong to Associated Guilds that year-round practice medieval arts and crafts: calligraphy, armoring, needlepoint, medieval dance, heraldry and the brewing of mead, a potent alcoholic beverage fermented from honey. All the skills come together at tournaments-staged several times a year by the society's four "kingdoms" -where the guildists hawk medieval wares, including such products as "dragon's blood," a fine powder used in magic potions...
Linebacking is also one of Harvard's fortes Junior Sandy Tennant, a robust 210 on a 5'10" frame will anchor the middle and play middle guard when the Crimson shifts to a five-man line. Tennant likes to hit people and makes football a year-round occupation. Mike Ferguson will defend the strong side at outside linebacker with junior Bob Kristoff taking the back side. The frost big and strong averaging well over 200 pounds...
Despite the prospects for glory, the Harvard crew program is a year-round operation, and the oarsman who participates can expect nine full months of rowing. It's a brutal trip and anyone who has seen the Charles in late November or early March, just before and just after the river is iced in, will know that it is no fun to row at that time of year. But at Harvard people row as long as there is open water, and when there no longer is any open water they play with ergometers, or they play in the tanks...
...CANTABRIGIA Orchestra's program notes included the following observation which spoke significantly of the concert which was about to begin. "The Harvard Summer School brings a zeal for and dedication to music and the arts that is unmatched (hardly even reflected or echoed) by the 'Year-round Institution,'" Especial thanks are indeed in order to the School's enlightened directors Thomas Crooks and Francois Wilkinson, for nurturing a relatively stable and adventurous musical environment--which, in the case of the Cantabrigia, resulted in the rarity of a program consisting entirely of excellent and generally neglected works which needed...
Bast places much of the blame on the deluges of Hurricane Agnes: "Eggs that were deposited over the last several years hatched in the high water and high tides." During July, New York state officials began an intensive spraying campaign against both larvae and adult mosquitoes-which can spread encephalitis and other diseases-but it is too late to eliminate the insect hordes. Says Massachusetts Agriculture Official Charles Cannon: "We used to control mosquitoes with massive, year-round larvacide projects. In the summer we sprayed, and in the winter we put down a powder pesticide on ice and snow, which...