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...well-meaning climbers should continue when it may be so easily avoided. Mount Washington is not an inherently dangerous mountain in spite of the many accidents that inexperienced climbers will bot heed the warnings of those who know the mountain well, and are aware of the dangers that await the person who is not prepared for its rigors. John S. Humphreys '54, President, HMC, Harry S. Francis '54, Chairman Safety Committee, H. Erich Helnemann '53, Chairman, Rock Committee...
...that field, he is definitely our Man of the Year ... At idealistic levels, there is, of course, Dr. Kinsey. He has captured the imaginations, and conversations, of our bridge-playing housewives. Whom will you choose ? That we await with a deal of interest...
...Jean's parents, while taking a dim view of a pregnant daughter, took an even dimmer one of the fledgling poet, and said no to a marriage. Fuming with hurt pride, Burns delivered a round, ranting curse on Mrs. Armour to a friend: "May all the Furies . . . await the old harridan . . . May Hell string the arm of Death to throw the fatal dart, and . . . rouse the infernal flames to welcome her approach!" Then he added cautiously: "For Heaven's sake, burn this letter," as if suspecting that within two years she would be his mother...
Voting and discussion often lasts through the night, and after members deliver the notice of election to sophomores, they either go back to their rooms to sleep or return to the club and await results. During the four-hour period between notification and acceptance or refusal, the clubs are permitted no contact with candidates. The decision, of course, does not rest solely with the undergraduate. Many of the candidates have had fathers, brothers, perhaps generations in one club. Even in 1953 when club life has lost most of its emphasis, a traditionally A.D. family's offspring going to Spee...
...London districts for imminent by-elections, was easily found in pubs; and a group of 20 Bevanites were discussing their future at the home of one of them in Vincent Square. Giggling like schoolboys, they were all rounded up in the darkness of the respectable old square to await the strategic moment when they would swoop into the House of Commons by the back door and take Tory Whip Patrick Buchan-Hepburn by surprise. Swoop they did, just as the vote was held, to defeat the government forces by a majority of four...