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...subcommittee studying the impact of Mather House on the College has suggested cutting down off-campus living and deconverting crowded suites in the present Houses as possible ways to fill the tenth House...
...Crimson's lack of success to the fact that "last year's starters haven't played as well this season," Wilson views the rest of the schedule's games as "all tough." He regards his non-league opponents equal in quality to Ivy League teams. Princeton, currently the tenth-ranked team in the nation in the Associated Press poll, Cornell, and Columbia are Wilson's picks for the top Ivy Crown contenders...
...Department of Housing and Urban Development, eager to cut down on air pollution and city traffic headaches, last week endorsed a snappy 9-ft. "minicar" that would be about half as long as today's intermediate Chevrolets and Fords, create one-tenth of the pollution. Developed under a $299,995 HUD grant to the University of Pennsylvania with help from General Motors, the three-passenger, 100-mile-range "hybrid" could whiz along highways at 60 m.p.h. on a small gasoline engine, switch to a battery-powered electric motor for tooling around town...
...necessary thing for Harvard College. If the admissions committee has just okayed nine consecutive students from a small town in Oregon, it will become wary of admitting more. Perhaps, as Whitla suggests, the advocate himself will not be able to find it in him to argue a tenth case enthusiastically. More important, there is something of a quota built into the admissions process. This is the docket system. Applicants are divided into 22 dockets, according to the secondary school the student attended. Far from Harvard, the docket divisions are large geographical units: Docket B, for example, is The Rockies...
John Whitbeck, Michel Schienmann. Bruce Weigand, Fritz Hobbs, Fernando Gonzales, and Peter Abrams, will play in the fifth through tenth positions for Harvard--which coach Jack Barnaby thinks may be the key to the team's success. All of Barnaby's players are in good physical condition...