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...hand was Defense Minister Brooke Claxton to bid the men bon voyage and to distribute a 30-page orientation booklet titled Off to Europe. Sample advice: "Don't be fooled by the cheap price and mild taste of French wines . . . Forget the fixed impression you have about European women. You can't take liberties with them ; that happens only in the movies ... If you behave decently, the people of Western Europe . . . will take new hope ... If you behave badly . . . you may ensure an eventual Communist triumph...
Dean Watson completely ignored these suggestions. On January 31, 1950, without first informing the council, the Faculty Committee on Student Activities issued a bilious green eight-page booklet that included all the rules to which the council had objected. The new council, installed at the end of the first term, promptly backed down on the suggestions of its predecessor...
...little booklet sent to Harvard alumni about luring "qualified" boys here for their college educations, the authors rather wistfully point out that "we don't want unintelligent boys. Princeton's wonderful football team of 1950 was composed of excellent scholars...
...raise reluctantly the minatory decanel finger, but the Princeton game is almost upon us and this impels me to call the attention of new students, and those old students who are cursed with feeble memories, to the section in the booklet. Regulations for Students in Harvard College, which deals with public disturbances. Incidentally, although this little publication can not be described as exciting reading, it is short, and I suggest that every Harvard student would profit from a few quiet moments spent in thoughtful study of its contents...
During the next few days, seniors will receive letters from the Office of Student Placement advising them to start planning for jobs. Students are urged to inspect the Office's files for information on vocations and to read two booklets which cover the aspects of job-hunting. As one booklet warns, "The earlier, you begin your job campaign the better...