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...compelled to comment on the running of the 17th Harvard Raft Race last Sunday. During the conduct of this event. large quantities of garbage and non-biodegradable pollutants were thrown into the already sufficiently dirty Charles River. Should such an environmentally unsatisfactory event have been sponsored by my military organization, loud (and proper) objections would quickly have been made by environmentalists, students and the media. In reading your May 2nd edition, the coverage of this ecological disaster implies that Harvard University not only condones this behavior, but participates at the executive level. I am saddened by this observation...
...Hitters don't always have the edge on opening Day. Sometimes pitchers dominate. But there has been only one no-hitter thrown on Opening Day. Name both the hurler and the team he pitched for. Five points...
After leaving Harvard, I visited Rhodesia and South Africa as a journalist and was thrown out of the latter country for interviewing Albert Luthuli, the Nobel Peace Prize winner, who had been banned by the South African government. Then as now, the South African government was hell-bent on destroying every African leader who showed his head. The system there will not reform itself from within...
Unfortunately for Harvard, the Terrier sophomore on the mound was matching Baxter pitch for pitch. Perillo gave up no walks and just one hit--a bloop single by Morelli in the fifth which the senior was thrown out trying to stretch into a double--over the first six innings...
...results are posted by name, not I.D. number, "on a sheet of paper tacked on the wall of the senate house." In the maths tripos, the results are read from the top of a balcony in the senate house in order of finish to the assembled students and then thrown off the balcony, Taylor says...