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Interested bystanders, with whom the world is forever coming in contact, relate this latest tale of a Freshman's blunder--or was it a blunder...
...present reorganization points toward the abolition of many of these faults and failings. The most obvious step is the syllabus, which, a la History 1, contains a full outline of the year's work. With a complete picture painted in advance, the course need no longer blunder and stumble from one point to the next, and students, as well as section men, can comprehend the purpose and place of each component part as they could not in the past. Another syllabus-baby, pretty enough to be carefully nurtured in Government 1 and adopted elsewhere, is the reprinting of excerpts from...
...error in administrative judgment does not, as in the reversed movie, pour the spilt milk back into the glass. The final conclusion of the Committee that Drs. Walsh and Sweezy should be reinstated is unjustified at this late date. If President Conant can be forgiven for making a tactical blunder, it is not so easy to forgive the Committee for declaring that Drs. Walsh and Sweezy should now be reappointed...
...profit of $20,700,000. In 1932 Mr. Nuelle's O. & W., familiarly known on the Stock Exchange as the Old Woman, was one of the country's 19 Class I roads (among which D. & H. was not included) making money. Then Mr. Loree made the blunder of his life: He used part of the Wabash and Lehigh Valley profits to buy 495,000 shares (10%) of New York Central. He bought at $22 and held it. It reached $55 a year ago, is now $13-and there are convincing rumors that D. & H. is taking its loss...
...education. For too many years the accompanying murals have offended his aesthetic sensibilities. The war memorial in the Chapel is a fitting and adequate tribute to the idealism engendered by the greatest of all social disasters. There is no need for a mature university to surround the tragic blunder with the maudlin sentimentalism of the verses and murals in Widener Library. Where was the "righteous cause," the "victory...