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...Editorial Director of the Detroit Collegian, Wayne's newspaper, wrote the CRIMSON that "Dr. Henry's action was probably taken because of our dependence upon.. the money granted us by the Detroit Board of Education...
...final figure for sexual dissatisfaction among college alumnae, Loth estimated, may be as high as 40 percent. Kinsey, he said, had suggested that the cause is a difference in environment and parental attachment between the collegian and the working girl. This seems true, according to the article, in spite of the fact that in recent years college women have been taught that it is possible for wives to achieve the same goals as their mates in this regard. This dissatisfaction, the preview indicates, could contribute to a higher divorce rate among college-educated women...
...dive out the window, however. Last spring five Harvard men clad in checkered shorts and examination blue books jumped off the John Weeks Memorial Bridge. They were arrested for disturbing the peace. No Collegian, since Henry Wadsworth Longfellow meditated aqueous suicide from the same point as a professor of Modern Languages here in the 1860's, had ever considered river bathing...
Like many another collegian, Charles Ross Greening* had been diverted from his major study (art) at Washington State College to one of his minors (military science). He flew on the Tokyo raid with Doolittle, and was the man who invented the expendable 20? bombsight which Doolittle used instead of the secret (and invaluable) Norden. Afterwards, Greening flew 27 missions over Africa and Italy. After the 27th, in July 1943, he was shot down. He just missed parachuting into the crater of Vesuvius...
...hours later, when all the clubbing and drubbing was over, the college boys had bowed to the clubmen. The flashiest player on the field was not a collegian or a graduate, but 17-year-old Billy Hooper, who looked out of place among his nine older Mount Washington teammates, but was right at home in the tussling. Hooper made half of his team's goals, scored the point that broke a tie 2½ minutes before the game's end. Score: Mount Washington 6, Johns Hopkins...