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This is the first time an American college crew has returned in toto to compete in the elimination races. The 1920 Annapolis crew--known as the Navy admirals--which won the Olympic Gold Medal that year attempted the feat in 1924 but only a portion of the eight oarsmen were available for competition. It was eventually beaten out in the trials for the honor of representing the United States...
...Temporary things have a strange way of growing permanent," stated John H. Finley '25, Master of Eliot House, "and one looks with some feat on this change. I do feel that the question of Harvard's remote future has got to be faced. In other words, this change would not alter the continued need for another House...
...Cradle. Says Biographer Jones flatly: "In 1901 Freud, at the age of 45, had attained complete maturity a consummation of development that few people really achieve." Jones credits this victory over neurotic disturbances, including inferiority feelings, to the "imperishable feat" of the four-year self-analysis that Freud began...
...full-dress study of the language of Communism has yet to be written, and would probably represent an intellectual feat more difficult than Bishop Colenso's codification of Zulu grammar or the deciphering of the Rosetta Stone. Meanwhile. Author Hodgkinson has made a commendable beginning...
...whose American credentials could not be questioned: Tammany, sachem (pronounced say-chem) of the Lenni-Lenape (Delaware Indians), from whom legends glowed like beams from an August moon. Tammany (it was said) invented the canoe, discovered corn, beans, crabapples and tobacco (for use in destroying fleas). His most heroic feat was in wrestling the Evil Spirit for 50 days. Finally Tammany upended the Evil Spirit with a hip lock and tried to roll him into the Ohio River. But an immense rock stood in the way, and Tammany failed to conquer evil...