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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Using shade trees for classroom roofs, Farmer-Missionary Higginbottom started the Allahabad Agricultural Institute to teach the secret of his miracles. He made princes shed their robes, put on working clothes, and go into the fields to get dirt under their nails just like the Untouchables. Soon, to their native states the student potentates took back a firsthand knowledge of contour farming, water conservation, crop rotation. Today the Allahabad Institute is a 600-acre demonstration farm with a student body...
...flickers around the edges of his lips we never were quite sure that our moralizing disbursing teacher could really smile until Hugh Chalfant "gave him the word" last week. Hugh's courage certainly deserves public praise in the press (where no stern hand of retaliation rules as in the classroom), especially since from the rumors we've heard he will need something to warm his heart up in the Aleutians next winter...
Radio and newspaper reporters are the likeliest peacetime users of this midget. Other possible customers: traveling businessmen, detectives, blackmailers. "And students who want to sleep in the classroom," Inventor Camras suggests...
...classroom now so I'd better sign...
Over in the classroom we find that B. "Specs" Grinaker and "Jim-the-Face" Madison have a deep sense of appreciation for some of the finer antics put on for our benefit by prominent persons in the Business School. The net result of these characterizations hasn't been reported as yet but they are expected to have a great effect on the actors' marks--in other courses than Statistics, of course...