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...team to record a close victory today. The Crimson has an edge in depth on UMass. The Redmen have two of the best runners in New England: co-Captains Rob Horn and Will Lepkowski. But between UMass' top men and the rest of the team there is a large gap. McCurdy is hoeing to take advantage of this situation by ramming at least five men into the gap, while keeping steady pressure on the opponent's best harriers. If this strategy works, Umass will suffer its first loss in two tries this season. The Redmen beat Dartmouth last week...
Leigh Hoadley, Master of Leverett House, said that the action "is certainly just a stop-gap measure to relieve the present terrific overcrowding. I have no worry at all that this would pinch-hit for another House...
...Hippopotamuses, quite as dumpy-dainty as Disney imagined them in his Fantasia ballet, glide and swoop and teeter-tiptoe underwater, looking like corpulent, flirtatious, middle-aged belles at a eurythmics seminar, except when they gap their incredible yaps, and let the fish swim in to pick their teeth...
...Eakins. "The true purpose of the painter," said Inness with perfect assurance, "is simply to reproduce in other minds the impression which the scene has made upon him. A work of art is not to instruct, not to edify, but to awaken an emotion." Inness' Delaware Water Gap (see color) goes on awakening pleasurable emotions in visitors to the Montclair, N.J. Art Museum. Painted in 1859, it is the museum's most popular picture...
Edith was permitted to continue her intellectual work whenever she could find a gap in the strict Carmelite routine. She produced extensive spiritual and philosophical writings that were remarkable even though, in the Catholic view, they suffered from certain defects inherent in her background (she sometimes confused theology with philosophy, sensing with reasoning). The tension between the philosopher and the Carmelite was resolved "by continual growth in holiness rather than the transformation of the philosopher into a theologian...