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Last week at Andover, Phillips Academy's shrewd Headmaster Claude M. Fuess (rhymes with "geese") adopted a collegiate custom by staging his school's first Alumni Day. To Andover's 162-year-old campus, glorious in sunshine and brilliant autumn foliage, came 175 old Andover boys. Oldest were a pair of survivors from the class...
...Dartmouth's in town again" to continue an age-old rivalry and with every intention of tearing apart not only eleven Crimson stalwarts, but the goal-posts and all of Metropolitan Boston, as has been their custom in recent years...
Fortunately, facts will not bear out this saga of declining freedom at Harvard. Not a university law but an unwritten custom prevented the Young Communist League from distributing its message from door to door. Any other group, whether left or right, harmless or vicious, would have met with the same refusal. But the mere fact that an "unwritten law" should crack down particularly on the more politically minded members of the university gives it an unsavory aura. No matter what the origin of this law, no matter what the original purpose, its present function is dangerous. It has almost become...
Cadillac offers 31 models in five series. New are the torpedo-type Sixty-Two, the Seventy-Two with six different sedan styles. Custom-built and unchanged are V-16s. Prices...
Drinking from one to ten cokes a day is as much a part of college life as saddle shoes and finals. The coke custom is the American collegiate substitute for afternoon tea, it is the excuse for relaxation and conversation. Everyone orders a coke, plain or flavored, usually from lack of originality, force of habit, or because it's his favorite drink...