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...Union Committee started the custom of helping Freshmen before midyears, an experiment which has proved so successful that it has been continued ever since. The purpose is not to cover the complete work of the course in an hour and a half for those who have done none to date, but rather to help out those who have trouble in reviewing for exams or have specific questions to be cleared...
...Note-Continuing the custom of having unusual slants on jazz and jazz criticism, Charles Miller '41, record critic for the Harvard Advocate and Boston correspondent for "Jazz Information," is guest columnist for this week...
...Kentucky Derbies, he has been living for the day when his green & white silks will again "get there the quickest," and thereby establish a record not likely to be broken. In Bimelech, whom he named after the Biblical warrior, Abimelech (dropping the A because it is an old Bradley custom to B-name all horses), Colonel Bradley has great faith...
Stealing the bell clapper from the tower of old Nassau Hall is so persistent a custom at Princeton that the university does a profitable business: keeps a barrel of spare clappers in reserve and fines students $30 a steal. One dark night two months ago Freshman John C. Seed, 19, of Oak Park, Ill., eluded the bored watchman, shinnied up a drain pipe. Part way up, he lost his hold, fell 35 feet to the ground. Freshman Seed went to a Chicago hospital, where his father is a physician, with two broken vertebrae...
They had reached the Common when the proctors, the Yard cops, and the police arrived on the scene and revived the ancient and honorable custom of collecting Bursar's cards...