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Harvard had its own controversy, top. The Student Council issued a report advising the University to split the three undergraduate classes into separate houses, each holding two to three hundred students, in a plan somewhat like the Oxford-Cambridge system. The Class of '27 would never enjoy the befit of the plan, but the Council's report led directly to the Present House system...
...pets of them. A devout member of the Disciples of Christ (she has her own chapel at Longview as well as a half-mile training track), she refuses to compete in a horse event on Sunday. At the National last week, Loula Combs was getting a special dispensation to befit her royal station: "The Garden has been so nice. They haven't scheduled any event of my class on Sunday, so I won't miss anything...
...Miguel Aléman a reception has been laid out that will befit his position and the new friendliness between his nation and the U.S. He will sleep in the White House, be honor guest at a state dinner. He will address a joint session of Congress. In New York City, before swinging south for an inspection of TVA, he will get a ticker-tape reception, dine with government, financial and business bigwigs at the Waldorf-Astoria. But President Aléman, the first Mexican President to visit the U.S. capital, is headed for Washington and New York on more...
Cynicism is not the philosophy of real leaders. Nor does escapism befit those who prepare for leadership. That is why students now seeking to prepare for a part in world affairs, greater in number than ever before, still look hopefully to the future. That is why they scornfully deny the charge of the Phi Beta Kappa speaker at Sanders Theatre yesterday that "in war our young manhood and womanhood was not afraid of dying, but strangely now it shrinks from living," yet echo enthusiastically his message: "There is yet time for valour...
...play the part of the judge, to curse and damn his own people in compliant agreement with the incalculable hatred that they have kindled . . . that too would hardly befit one of German origin. For anyone who was born a German does have something in common with German destiny and German guilt. . . . The truths that one tries to utter about one's people can only be the product of self-examination...