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Estrangement of tutors gradually crept in with the elective system. Introduced a century ago, electives reached their peak 50 years later when 18 completely unrelated courses were sufficient for a degree. Tutors began to regard under-graduates as inmates in a reformatory, while contemporary student comment called tutors "invariably low-born, despicable rustics, lately emerged from the dunghill...
...found a glamorous front man: Prince Junio Valerio Borghese, 46, who bears one of Italy's most illustrious names (Borgheses have been popes, cardinals and generals). Prince Junio is one of the few authentic Italian heroes of World War II. He commanded the two-man submarines that crept into Alexandria Harbor one dark December night in 1941, blowing up H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth and H.M.S. Valiant and for a time paralyzing the British in the Mediterranean. When the beaten Mussolini fled to north Italy and founded his short-lived Fascist republic, Borghese went along, served as chief of staff...
...days later, as if to justify A.P. Herbert's words, a respectable meat merchant of Watford was haled into court for "the unlawful and malicious wounding" of a burglar whom he had shot as the man crept into his bedroom at 4:30 a.m. one morning in February. The Watford judge forgave the merchant the crime on the grounds that he had probably shot "in panic," and dismissed him with a $60 fine "for costs...
...crest touched 30.24 feet. Then, slowly, the waters crept back down the markers on the rivermen's gauges. But the flood, even as it fell, showed its awesome power. The suction of the receding waters pulled huge chunks of muck from the levees. On the Omaha shore, the river forced its way into sewer outlets and gushed out with enough strength to lift a truck-trailer off the street and to buckle 120 feet of concrete pavement. Army engineers quickly dropped a lattice of steel I-beams across the sewer outlets, then jammed up the barrier with sandbags...
Lamont inserted the wedge, the Graduate Center widened the gap. Now that Burr has crept right in, the University can boast that it still points the way in education by absorption...