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Other Crimson candidates will include Frank Nahigian, Bill Engs, Paul Beck, Jerry Whatmough, John Bidwell, Jim Gerry, and Ken Wilson. AI Wills, a freshman seensation last year, has been ill all season but may start...
Elgin's Marbles. The non-library part of the museum has, among other things, a painting by the 4th century Chinese artist Ku K'ai-chih and one of the world's best collections of Dürer woodcuts and drawings. Its antiquities from Ur and Nineveh are outstanding; its Egyptian collection includes the famed Rosetta stone. The most notable items are the Elgin Marbles, taken from the Parthenon in Athens and donated by Lord Elgin...
...Chinese instituted a program of civil service examinations in 165 B.C., along the lines of a proposal Confucius had made two centuries before. As finally formalized, the system classed aspiring civil servants into three general types: the hsiu-ts'ai, or "budding genius," who could pass the basic district examination; the chii-jen, or "promoted man," who passed provincewide tests, and the chin-shih, or "achieved scholar," the man who passed an examination at the national capital...
...Hsueh Hsi, Brainwasher Ai hurriedly ate crow: "I Bailed to grasp the problem . . . My mistaken views were the result of my failure to undertake class analysis . . ." Ai's 10,000-word apology was eloquent, but it was too late to save him from severe reprimand in the next issue of his own magazine: "Certain comrades have been imbued with strong dogmatism and party jargon . . . Many articles have been characterized by emptiness and bluffing...
Last week Hsueh Hsi suspended publication. Ai, presumably, was having his brains washed...