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Princeton's new plan uses the term "audited courses" instead of pass-fail. If an audited course is failed or dropped any time during the semester, the university will keep no record of a student's connection with the course. In addition, an "audited" course may count toward a student's distribution requirements...
Popular election of presidents would spur competition in one-party states. Undoubtedly it would lift the percentage of registered voters participating in presidential elections, since otherwise meaningless votes--for Democrats in Republican states and the other way around--would at last count for something...
...other side of the tree in order to fling the dwindling roll back and forth." And there are rules as well as an art to it. Mary Karen Bowen, 16, of Bountiful, Utah, advises: "Make sure you don't break the roll, or it doesn't count." The results, particularly when it rains or snows immediately thereafter, add up to ells and ells of mess. But as one mother sighs, "It's less destructive than anything else the kids...
Harvard has never met Northeastern in a dual contest. The Crimson beats the Huskies every year in the Greater Boston Collegiate Meet. But that's different. In the GBC's, with so many squads entered, only the best men on each team count. Here nearly everyone counts...
Direct contacts on Romney's behalf have been made with Republican leaders in New Hampshire, New York, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Mississippi. The Governor's aides have already made a straw count of convention delegates; they figure that they can now count on some 500 first-ballot votes, while Nixon probably controls around 550 (required for the nomination: 667). They have solicited New York Senator Jacob Javits to suggest a speechwriter. They have borrowed New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller's research files from his 1964 attempt to get the nomination...