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...grade on a bluebook. Many 'Cliffies were anxious to learn for themselves whether or not Harvard's famed ner-table education" was really the myth their cynical friends from the Common claimed. Most of them found that it was, but also discovered that their favorite professor, from his den in the Widener might prove entertaining if not Undeniably, Mrs. Bunting's system added the spice of wit, of scholarship, to Radcliffe's otherwise drab meals...
Different flaws appeared when the choruses separated. The Glee Club's rendition of Schubert's Gesang Der Geister Uber Den Wassern handled admirably the contrasts of stanzas, but the tenors had a thin tone and blended poorly. The five piece string orchestra did have trouble with intonation, but it was a welcome addition...
...distance between the swordsmen. Unlike a duel, the fighters are not responding to a challenge, and in fact may not even know each other. The Mensur also differs in the extensive safeguards aimed at preventing any killing. Nobody wins, nobody loses. The object is only to subdue den inner en Schweinehnnd (cowardice) by taking a slash with aplomb. Habitual flinchers are booted out of the fraternity. ''This is the way an elite has to be formed." explains one student at the University of Munich. He sees fraternities as a splendid antidote to the rootless "academic proletariat" at West...
...Den of Iniquity. In a day and a half before the subcommittee chaired by Mississippi's Senator John Stennis, Walker told how he had been "muzzled" by the U.S.'s executive branch in his attempts to indoctrinate his troops against Communism, and how, when he persisted, he was removed from his command of the 24th Infantry Division in Germany, and finally resigned from the Army. Now, Walker could feel unmuzzled at last...
...Sylvester, USIA Director Edward R. Murrow, Commentators Walter Cronkite Eric Sevareid, Writers John Gunther, Max Lerner, Joseph Barnes, and Harry and Bonaro Overstreet. (It turned though, that he had not read the books that he denounced as bad reading his troops.) He charged that he had "framed in a den of iniquity" was and the victim of a mysterious "real control apparatus" dedicated to a "no-win" war policy for the U.S. "I was a scapegoat of an unwritten policy of collaboration and collusion with the international Communist conspiracy . . ." Tower of Babel. Such talk puzzled the Senators. Just what, asked...