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...dearth of teachers in the nation, already alarming, will increase in the next year, the National Education Association reports. Despite an acute need of extra teachers, this year's graduating classes will supply 32,000 fewer teachers than last year. Only areas where high salaries are paid report no immediate shortage...
...English department has but one defense for this dearth: there are not enough students interested in courses dealing with single writers to warrant giving them every year. This is irrelevant, however. It does not excuse the gaping lapse in historical continuity so evident in American Literature's meager offerings...
Dunster House is not all sweetness and light, however. One of the most serious faults of the House is the top-heavy proportion of its members who are science concentrators, its dearth of club men and white shoe elements. There are comparatively few varsity athletes in the House as well, but the Class of 1954 in Dunster has done quite a bit to make up for this lack. Master Fair would welcome applications from these groups--their absence in the House represents no prejudice on his part...
There has been another problem interrelated with the dearth of tutorial which appeared almost as serious. During the past five years, the Dean's Office, the Houses, and the various departments have held power over different spheres of the undergraduate's life, so that there has been no one focus for his intellectual activity...
...piffle was too much; there was getting to be a dearth of debate-worthy epithets. Last week a movement began to amend the old rule, so that men can once more be men, and debate become something not to be piffled with...