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Divisional examinations in the spring of the Junior and Senior year will be "framed primarily with a view to bringing out the unity of the area and of its special fields rather than mainly to demonstrating competence from the point of view of the departmental dis- ciplines...
...TIME'S reporter was among those who actually heard kindly, philogynous Vegetable-Oil Processor Eisenschiml speak. The recollections of speaker and hearer appear to have dis agreed in details...
...Paul boys cannot mistake the characters pilloried in The Wrong Attitude. One, whom Chanler grew to dis like so ardently that he carried a piece of lead pipe to swing whenever he thought of him, was "Chappie"- St. Paul's famed Housemaster Willard "Chappie" Scudder. Chappie wore a bifocal pince-nez and a drooping, waxed mustache, dressed in the height of fashion, was thoroughly at home at lawn parties,"never let his slight paunch get to be more than a slight paunch," in every way exemplified "the right attitude...
...chest), flew with the Lafayette Escadrille in France. After that he modeled for Arrow Collars, worked on Broadway. Donlevy likes fishing, prospecting for gold, has a family fondness for whiskey. To liven his cinema slugfests, he sometimes tries to anger his opponents, then let them have it. Otherwise his dis position is peaceful. But he is never joshed on two subjects: his middle name (Waldo) and the toupee he wears professionally...
...born discouraged. Others, like Henry James, were to spend ten years trying to solve the question where to live. . . . William James and Howells, who had come from the West, retained the buoyant mood of the early republic; but most of the others were cautious and conservative, cool and dis illusioned on the surface, with the know ing air of men who expect to be swindled, who cannot trust the society in which they live...