By the three mile mark Yale was very ragged and Harvard had a good lead, finishing 5 1/2 lengths ahead of Yale.

Nine Splits With Eli

The fortunes of the Crimson baseball team declined sharply as the Commencement week proceeded. On Monday June 18, the team beat an Eli squad 13 to 8 in hostile New Haven, but this was followed by two defeats--the latter, one of the worst in years.

The Crimson's mistake was in trying to play three games in three days, but the Tuesday encounter with Princeton was a postponed one, and its rescheduling allowed the Tigers to clinch the Eastern Intercollegiate Championship.

Princeton won 6 to 2, and the only Crimson consolation was its triple play that wiped out the Princeton side in the second inning.

Harvard fell apart on Wednesday when it lost 22 to 8 to Yale on Soldiers Field before a Class Day crowd that could not stand the proceedings and began walking out early.

Harvard-Yale Harriers Lose

The Harvard-Yale track team lost to a combined Oxford-Cambridge squad 9 events to 4 on June 23 in London. Three Crimson men scored firsts to pace the U. S. squad. The English now lead in these international contests with eight wins, seven losses, and one tie.

The Crimson's Ronald Berman scored the only American win in the running events when he came from last at the end of the first lap to catch a Cambridge opponent at the tape in a 1:54 half-mile.

In the field events Bob Mello took the pole vault with 13 feet, 3 inches, while Allen Wilson captured the shot put with 47 feet, 5 3/4 inches.

2,775 Attend Summer School

About 2,775 students passed the warm months in Cambridge, studying for hour exams and rushing to Lamont to keep cool. Of the total, approximately 1,440 were from Harvard and Radcliffe. The whole enrollment was an increase of 125 over last year.

The students came from 175 different universities, and for the first time in many years a majority of the faculty was made up of regular Harvard staff members, such as Charles R. Cherington '35, associate professor of Government, and Oscar Handlin, associate professor of History.

About 60 visiting instructors also taught at the school; these included poet Pierre Emmanuel, economist David McCord Wright, critic John Crowe Ransom, History professor Hans Kohn, and foreign policy expert Hans J. Morgenthau.

Highlights of the summer were four conferences on science today, "Philosophy and the Culture Crisis," the "Philosophical Bases of Literary Criticism," and "Mobilization and National Security."