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Students not admitted should receive some balm, however, from Dean Watson's statement that all men unassigned to a House will be kept on the official waiting list, for the use of the masters when vacancies occur. In such instances, these men will be released from their dormitory contracts, and allowed to change their residences...
Died. Paul Percy Harris, 78, Chicago lawyer who, in 1905, founded the first Rotary Club as a balm for his own loneliness; in Chicago. Harris became the first national, first international, president of Rotary (so named because early meetings were held in rotation at each member's office), lived to see his club expand to more than 70 countries, with a 293,000 membership...
...becomes clear that the original dream-house, safely bought, is too old to warrant repair, to the day when the new dream-house at last rears its modern conveniences above a hideous reality of mortgages, and stands proudly in its field of bills. Mr. Blandings will be bitter balm for any optimist who has dreamed of drinking from his own clear spring-and has instead landed up with ". . . one Zuz-Zuz Water Soft...
...busy decision day, the Court handed down two other notable rulings. It gave balm to three New Dealers-Robert Morss Lovett, Goodwin B. Watson, and William E. Dodd-whose salaries had been withheld in 1943 by Congress merely because they had been dubbed "radical" by the Dies Committee. The Court called Congress' action a "bill of attainder"-and gave Congress the hardest rap in more than a decade...
...world grimly determined that nothing shall remain static, the change-weary veteran who returns to Cambridge finds here no "back-to-normalcy" balm. Wherever he looks he sees a college in flux. His departure, it would seem, was the signal for new and uncertain educational ventures...