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...matter of fact, the Varsity held up well, all circumstances considered. It took the vaunted Canadian squad 17 minutes and four seconds to sink their first marker, which was equalled almost immediately by the Crimson. But in the second and third periods the floodgates opened to let eight separate players tally eight more markers for the hosts, while the Crimson could only muster three, two of them by Dave Abbot. The final score...
This is not to say that advisory indifference effects all undergraduates equally. The adviser's sink or swim attitude goes to work on a group that is severely split before it ever arrives in Cambridge. The need of a Massachusetts prop school graduate for a capable adviser will not parallel the need of a student from a small town in Kansas. The prep school product is likely to have a friend or a brother already at Harvard with whom he can consult on academic and other activities. The midwesterner will probably be entering a new and alien society, without personal...
...stay afloat in a Third World War, the navies of the world will have to sink beneath the waves--this was the paradoxical prediction yesterday of Samuel Eliot Morison '07, naval expert and Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History...
Furious as he was with Japanese duplicity, Halsey was quite prepared to adopt Pearl Harbor tactics himself. Even before he knew of the Japanese attack, he had given orders to "sink any shipping sighted, shoot down any plane encountered." Protested his operations officer: "Goddammit, Admiral, you can't start a private war of your own! Who's going to take the responsibility?" Said Halsey: "I'll take it! If anything gets in my way, we'll shoot first and argue afterwards...
...Beginning to sink gradually into the ocean...