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Some 3,000 midshipmen will march from their grey stone barracks at Annapolis next week to hear handsome, ur bane Vice Admiral Aubrey Fitch open the ceremonies celebrating the U.S. Naval Academy's 100th year. There will be light moments, a "hop" in Dahlgren Hall. But essentially it will be an occasion for prayer ful thought both in the Chapel and the Administration Building next door...
Mention of laundry, that bane of every WAVE's existence, brings to mind thoughts of a unique institution here at Briggs Hall, the Alcove. The Alcove is no secluded nook, as its name might imply, where one may while away spare moments in intimate conversation with a friend. It is, rather, the equivalent of the corner drugstore, the village post-office, or somebody's backyard. It is a quaint combination of laundry, shower-room, and telephone booth that none but a Navy mind could have dreamed up. Here of a sunny afternoon, any day after four o'clock, the following...
...some amusing lines, some lively moments. It brings a timely touch of khaki to the timeless absurdities of youth. But it isn't buoyant or spontaneous enough; all its breeze seems to come from an electric fan. It has that terrible noisiness which is the bane of too-innocent merriment. Refreshing is the still, small voice of Janie's baby sister Elsbeth (Clare Foley), who at seven is a past mistress of espionage and blackmail. Elsbeth is funny. The rest is formula...
University of Kansas. Bane of Kansas farmers, who call it the "country club," K.U. started off the school year with its usual pastimes of dancing, beering and cruising on Mount Oread in sleek convertible coupes. Since Dec. 7, collegiate life has grown earnest. With 10% of K.U.'s male students already enlisted or drafted, Navy "V" classes and R.O.T.C. have been packed. Biggest new academic course is "The World At War" (365 students...
When Harvard loses I am sad, but it is as nothing compared with the depths of despair into which I am plunged when some accident halts the Ann Arbor juggernaut and Minnesota comes out ahead. That Minnesota game for the past four years has been the bane of my existence, spiritual and financial. My credo states as a fundamental premise that The Little Brown Jug belongs on a shelf in the Perry Field Athletic Building and that it is only a streak of bad luck that has allowed it to stray up to Little Sweden. I have a number...