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...mild, shy man with a dilettante's interest in symphonic music and the ballet. He had never been arrested for anything, had never been openly mixed up in left-wing movements. At 39, he was still a bachelor, still lived with his family. Neighbors had considered him a "good boy" when he was a child-quiet, studious, polite. They still did. He seemed completely wrapped up in his work in medical research at the Philadelphia General Hospital...
Good job opportunities for June college graduates will be scarce, a study by the U. S. Department of Labor reports. In certain technical fields such as Chemistry, prospects are good for men with postgraduate work, but in these fields men with only a bachelor's degree will run into stiff competition, the survey finds...
There will be no Physical Education major, but more courses will be added in the future until a Yale student can take three one-year courses and a full fifth year of physical education work, graduating with a bachelor's degree, and a certificate of teacher's training...
...Jowler. Like anything else, university slang has had its contagious fads. In the 17th Century, students ranged their drinking companions in a sort of academic hierarchy. A Bachelor meant a lean drunkard, a Bachelor of Law was one "that hath a purple face, inchac't with rubies," a Doctor was one that "hath a red nose." In the igth and soth Centuries, the fashion has been to add the suffixes -agger, -ogger, and -ugger to the initial consonants of all titles of dignity. Thus Queen Victoria was dubbed The Quagger; the Princes of Wales (in the case of both...
...been of different temperament, Professor Francis Otto Matthiessen of Harvard University might well have rested content with his fame as a scholar. He was a bookish bachelor of mild manner and quiet voice, whose name had become one of the best known in the faculty. To his students, he was "Matthie," always ready to receive them in his book-lined study, always prepared to help them if he could. To scholars, he was the brilliant authority on Henry and William James, and the author of a penetrating book on the times of Melville and Hawthorne, American Renaissance...