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Each of the professors will stay at one of the Houses for the rest of his four has at Harvard. They felt that one of the most important things about their trip "to be able to acquaint ourselves with the life here at the College...
Introduced by Harvard Captain Arthur J. Cumnock to increase team membership and to acquaint the players with the rudiments of the game, the first spring football program was by modern standards of a relaxed tenor, featuring a drop-kick "tournament" lasting from May 1 to May 28. The whole idea went over pretty well despite Crimson apathy, and one year later, in 1890, the spring football program was expanded to include not only a more intensified training for the players, but also a wrap-up game of two 20-minute halves...
While at Harvard Nkosi hopes to acquaint students with the culture of Africa. Most Americans, he feels, do not "know the people they're trying to help." An African arts festival, he suggested, would help make Africa better known...
...redrawn, converting the present departments into new, decentralized administrative areas that will make easy the partitioning of the land between Europeans and Moslems, should that become necessary. The explosive highlight of Stage I is slated to be a De Gaulle visit to Algeria next month "to acquaint and explain himself." His closest advisers are arguing against the trip for fear of an assassination attempt...
...knows, he may turn the more whole-minded of us to realizing that the "child is father of the man," and inspire us to acquaint ourselves with Freud's voluminous works to perhaps correct our "innocent bungling" so that we may not forever keep breeding disaster on the human race...