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Sailing in gale-force winds, the Crimson barely edged out arch-rival Coast Guard Academy for second place in the New England Championships and earned an invitation to the North Americans, which will be held at the University of British Columbia the weak of June...
...Parkway Header and into the dim passage ahead. At once, the air became quite chilly, and the Tunnel began to climb upwards. "We're approaching the bridge," said the guide, "and we've got three tight squeezes ahead of us." (The Weeks Bridge, we recalled, has three arches; at the top of each, the Tunnel can only be about a yard high.) "Actually, we ourselves don't much use this passage," he went on, as we climbed up the steep curve of the first arch. "When we want to come over to the Business School, we travel on the surface...
...cramped top of the middle arch we thought of the pedestrians walking just inches above us; how surprised they would have been had they known an expeditionary force was moving silently beneath their feet. Our musings were interrupted by a loud "Hello," from up ahead. It came from Dominic, a friendly other-side-of-the-river Tunnel man who was waiting to take us the rest of the way. Our South Yard guide, having reached the border of his territory, could proceed no farther. We waved goodbye as he turned around to go back, and then, with Dominic encouraging...
...that it seems oldfashioned. Ransom's courtly poetic rhetoric seems antique to the ear of an age that banned charm and rhetoric from poetry in order to come to grips with life. Newcomers wandering in Ransom's poetic kingdom are likely to bark a shin on such arch words as "pernoctated," or be mildly astonished at the poet's unfashionable fondness for bucolic life, his hopeless disapproval of industry, efficiency, and the practical machinery of getting ahead. Ransom's poems, Critic Randall Jarrell has correctly observed, "are full of an affection that cannot help itself...
...Business? Cincinnati's Archbishop Alter says that three-fourths of all Catholic children in the arch diocese already attend kindergarten in public schools, and "adding one more year to their presence in the public schools will not interfere too seriously with their religious training." And a new book, by a Catholic mother of five boys who have variously gone to public and Catholic schools, suggests that the church should go out of the school business altogether. Mary Perkins Ryan, author of Are Parochial Schools the Answer?, argues that providing a general education for all young Catholics has proved...