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Greatest Profession. One autumn day in 1921, "expecting to be met by the headmaster demanding the past participles of French verbs," Thornton arrived on the oak-studded campus near Trenton, N.J. There, for six years, while his expatriate contemporaries were scribbling and scrounging on the Left Bank, Wilder nursed and nudged a generation of Lawrenceville boys. "I am the only American of my generation," says he, "who did not go to Paris...
Cinderella sister of Oxford and Cambridge, London U. still holds its classes in workaday clothes. Its students are too busy with their books to be bothered about being gentlemen scholars. As they "came down" from the autumn term last week, they had few opportunities to wear dinner jackets, even if they owned any. Vacation meant little more than time for a trip on the underground to a Leicester Square movie rather than a Russell Square lecture...
...same, London considers itself the largest university in the Commonwealth, larger than Oxford and Cambridge combined. When the autumn term began, its enrollment included one-fourth (18,-283) of all England's full-time university students. And the University of London is still expanding to absorb more of Britain's new generation of students. In Bloomsbury, the last daubs of paint are being slapped on Birkbeck College (for evening classes), and nearby the steel girders for a new student union are already in place. "We have it in our power," says Principal Douglas W. Logan, "to create...
...insects during sleep), and its bristling whiskers have a superfine sense of touch. On his short legs, the possum meanders in a slow, aimless shuffle. As a climber he shows his greatest skill, using his strong, ratlike tail and the opposing "thumb" on his hind feet to scrabble after autumn persimmons. He cannot hang by his tail as long as legend would have it, but he does "play possum" with stubborn persistence when in danger...
...statistics were compiled through the good offices of The Daily Dartmouth, which follows the habit of printing the names of every girl invited to the annual fall Houseparty weekend. The weekend fell on November 8 this autumn, and The Dartmouth, true to form, printed the names of all 1289 young women who were asked up to Hanover...