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...Radcliffe Administration will probably continue to allow students living in off-campus houses to choose the dormitories in which they eat meals, contrary to its decision earlier this week...
Members of the eight Radcliffe off-campus houses which do not serve meals will be assigned to eat regularly at specific dormitories next year, Frances R. Brown, Dean of Residence, revealed yesterday...
...president of Massachusetts Agricultural College (now the University of Massachusetts), Clark helped found the school that was to become the outpost island's pride, its own first-rank university. Last week, as the university's 5,300 mackinawed students settled themselves on the snow-blown campus for the year's winter term, they slogged past an old landmark-a large statue of Clark-and a raw, new one: the shell of the still unfinished William Smith Clark Memorial Student Center...
Tall Story (by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse) hinges on that old story of campus comedy, the Big Game in Jeopardy. According to its boosters, Custer College has "higher scholastic standards, a better basketball team, and a lower rate of pregnancy" than any little coed college in the Midwest. The haloed hoopster of the basketball team, a stilt-high science major named Ray Blent (played with engaging cyclonic dis-coordination by Robert Elston), is in love with the pert, bouncy girl cheerleader (Nina Wilcox). When $1,500 in fix money is anonymously planted in his overcoat, visions of marrying...
From the start, the answer was obvious. On his second day, 3,000 Indians swarmed over the University of Delhi campus to see the prince get a D.Sc. They applauded his jokes ("I regret to say that all my degrees are honorary ones"), cheered wildly when he mentioned the last viceroy who so smoothly presided over the transition to independence, "that great friend of India, my uncle Lord Mountbatten." For all its years as a republic,* the land that struggled so hard for independence is still largely dominated by British ways, has not even bothered to take down the portraits...