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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...over the countryside when a group of uninvited Messerschmitts dropped in for a dog fight. The R. A. F. flew off to fight. In the interests of neutrality, the lone American streaked for the field, was gleefully pursued by a pot-hunting Nazi. When the bullets began to zip past him, the American abandoned neutrality, flipped over his plane, got the Nazi in his sight, pressed the Spitfire's gun button, bagging one Messerschmitt fighter for the armed forces...
Halsey feels that in the past Harvard has had plenty of ability out on the boards, but that more stress should have been laid on strict training. This is especially true in the cross-country event where endurance is all important. That is why the first snow storm found the boys sprinting up and down the Charles River embankment...
...Whenever the government undertakes a project to educate the Navajo Indians, they simply pack up and move," said William H. Claffin '41, at the third meeting in the American Civilization series which was on Indian culture of the past and of the present...
Harry Brown, in the past occasionally a member of the Class of 1941 and now a sort of out-of-course poet laureate, has contributed often to the Advocate since leaving Harvard; and his poems have sometimes been the only saving grace of otherwise subnormal issues. But this month's Advocate is so consistently excellent that it would rate a whole row of stars even without Harry's magnificent "Ode For Richard Eberhart...
...that the emotional debris of the Yale weekend has been swept away, one fact remains above the others as of perhaps the most lasting significance. That is the extraordinary rise of Harvard-Yale intramural competition during the past few-years. In 1933 the first annual intramural tackle championship game was fought with Yale. This proved so successful that several colleges made it a practice to challenge rival Houses, irrespective of their standing in the series. This year, for the first time, all seven Houses played Yale games; one in the regular championship series, and the others in the fast-becoming...