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Radcliffe's attitude toward sports has been a source of alarm and depression to Harriet L. Clarke, director of physical education at the 'Cliffe, ever since she stopped teaching gym at Wellesley in '42. "It's a real crusade to scrape up enough people for a playday with another college," she said despondently, "and last year we had to cancel a swimming meet and a basketball game since so few girls have the incentive to get out there and fight for Radcliffe...
...grand opening of Northeastern's gym on Saturday was a complete flop as far as its team was concerned. An undefeated University of Massachusetts five beat the Huskies...
Saturday's entertainment includes morning soccer games and jayvee football competition, as well as the main feature in the stadium at 1:30. In the evening the Princetonians are presenting the "Tiger Tea Party" at Dillon Gym from 9:00 to 1:00. Dancing will be to Billy Butterfield and his 12-piece orchestra, with scences from the Triangle show at intermission--all for $2.50 a couple...
Wandering through the chill autumn woods outside Stockholm, a casual American tourist might have stumbled across the 20 goose-pimpled Swedes and Finns and mistaken them for a bunch of overage Boy Scouts minus their marbles. Shivering in skimpy costumes-cotton shorts and shirts and gym shoes-they looked like summer hikers, some two months late, waiting for a tardy scoutmaster to take them home...
...followed such advice with good results-the despondent businessman who kept repeating a Bible verse until he could "square his shoulders and walk out into the night"; the high jumper who made it after he was told: "Throw your heart over the bar and your body will follow"; the gym proprietor who kept a sign on the wall reading A P R P B W P R A A (for "Affirmative Prayers Release Powers By Which Positive Results Are Accomplished"); the woman who could not find a husband because she was too domineering ("You have a very firm...