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...Harvard's first full-time coach in a number of years, Pickett's teams have never turned in poorer than .500 records. With five wins, two ties, and a single defeat, that by two points, this years' team may be the best since the war. Still ahead are Springfield and Yale, both formidable obstacles, particularly the Bulldog. In 20 years of H-Y competition this tenacious club has never lost to the varsity...
Introspection. In Springfield, 111., the state senate decided for "reasons of efficiency and economy" to eliminate the Committee on Efficiency and Economy...
...picture's shadowy history was pieced together recently by Art Historian Katharine McCook Knox. A Chicago promoter commissioned the canvas from the most fashionable portraitist of the day, George Peter Alexander Healy, just after the 1860 elections. Healy buttonholed the President-elect at Springfield, got him to sit three times. A visiting politician dropped by the senate chamber in Springfield's old statehouse to watch one of the sittings, later described the scene: "He [Lincoln] sat to the artist with his right foot on top of the left and both feet turned inward-pigeon fashion-round-shouldered-looking...
...Crimson's biggest victory came in the 220 as Jim Jorgensen sped to his fastest time of the year, 2:09.2, to beat the Springfield squad's captain Bruce Hutchinson...
...Springfield's Jack Mayers dumped the Crimson's Dave Hawkins with a 1:09.2 120-yard individual medley. This cracked the 1:09.7. New England intercollegiate mark Mayers had set in his team's last meet on Jan. 28. Hawkins holds the varsity record for the event--1:32.1--swum over a course 30 yards longer...