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Columnist Herb Caen knew the usual trade practice: brag about your right guesses, if any, and maybe nobody will notice the others. One day last week he devoted his entire daily space in the San Francisco Chronicle to a recital of his April errors. Sample error: that fine little crack about the canned peas served at the national frozen-food convention banquet had been run without checking; and it just wasn't so. Caen promised to continue "Writing the Wrongs" once a month. "In the course of hacking together 20 or 25 items a day," he explained...
Financial and housing problems have forced postponement of a joint American Veterans Committee-Student Council plan to send students to France to help rebuild the University of Caen. Originally scheduled for this summer, the project will not go into effect until...
Francis D. Fisher '48, I.A.C. Secretary at the same time urged students interested in helping to rebuild Italian villages and the French University of Caen to attend a meeting this evening at 8 o'clock in the Eliot House Junior Common Room, where they may file applications and discuss details of the project...
...same meeting, the previously announced Caen University project will be discussed, and applications for both accepted. The rector of the famed French school requested help from the International Activities Committee last fall, explaining that living quarters had been almost entirely destroyed by the Allied advance of July...
...Proctor of Caen has written saying that men are needed to aid in the reconstruction of dormitories and classrooms destroyed during the war, while the Yugoslavia project involves construction work on a railway with its terminus at Belgrade...