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...council suggested that a questionnaire be sent to incoming freshmen stating, "Please note any special preferences which you would like to see in a roommate's "study habits, extra-curricular and social activities, race, religion, and geography." From this, the deans would assign roommates according to compatibility instead of interests, race, and religion...
...voted to seat Morse and 81 had voted against him. This comeuppance was promptly interpreted as Republican "discipline," but the Democrats, whose presidential candidate Morse had supported, were more responsible for his plight than the G.O.P. Morse had insisted that he didn't want the Republicans to assign him to committees. Nevertheless, G.O.P. leaders at one point proposed that the Armed Services and Labor committees be enlarged to reseat Morse and to add another Republican, thus assuring G.O.P. control of all committees. The Democratic leadership flatly refused...
...survey of Truman's presidency, Schlesinger extended the classification of American Presidents which appeared in his essay, "A Yardstick for Presidents," in 1949. At that time he attempted to assign historical rankings to our past Presidents, excluding Truman while he was still in office...
When the Debaters begin to prepare for a debate they assign a four man squad to the job. The squad divides up into groups of two, and each prepares a case for a practice debate to be held before the rest of the club. The winning group in practice then begins to prepare for the debate itself...
Both alternatives, however, fail to fill the demand. The Housing Office lists but a handful of weekend tourist homes, most of which fill up weeks in advance. Bound by the fire laws, Radcliffe dormitories can only assign guests the beds of girls who have left for the weekend--and big social weekends are hardly the time for a mass exodus from Radcliffe. If they wish to avoid the trials of Pumley, students must try the outlying suburbs or high priced hotels...