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...excited about these pages. They portray a party -- different aspects of a party. Parties are one aspect of life here. If you keep that in mind, you might have a chance of understanding this section. People at Harvard and Radcliffe drink, they smoke dope, they dance, they play chess, occasionally they pass out on a couch, and they make love. What is the problem? Put it in a yearbook, and everyone gets upset. Sex is part of life here, and anyone who denies it is being naive. Does it belong in a yearbook? Yes, for the same reason that...
...results are none too exciting. That memorable exception, though, surpasses anyone's wildest dreams -- the already famous color sequence (one of seven) titled "Lifestyles." Both the managing editor and the business manager of the book appear in this section, and the lifestyles they helped portray include dancing, drinking, playing chess while drinking, smoking dope, holding hands, passing-out-on-the-couch from drink (or possibly from the combined lifestyles of drink and dope), and making love. I realize the editors of 337 invested a lot of time and thought in the book, and maybe they have their own good reasons...
...intensely watched. There is no jumbled scrimmage that must be clarified with instant replay. The ball may approach home plate at 100 m.p.h. or crawl down the third-base line like a crab. A 400-ft. fly ball may fall foul by two inches. As in chess, power radiates from stationary figures. Yet on a given pitch, ten men may be moving. Clearly, this is a game to be scrutinized...
...deepest fascination lies in twin aspects of the game: records and time. In other sports, the past is a laugh. Teen-age girls are breaking Johnny Weismuller's old Olympic marks. The four-minute mile has been shattered beyond repair. Pole vaulters, broad jumpers, skiers, quarterbacks, golfers, chess players-they have all rewritten the record books until yesterday's hero is exposed as a man with feat of clay. Only baseball has retained so many of its idols. No one has come close to Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak of 1941. The Ted Williams...
WINTHROP DINING HALL, Harvard-Radcliffe Team Chess Championship, April 20, 8, beer served...