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Sign-out books are kept for three purposes: to locate girls in case of emergency, to keep a voluntary check on the honor system, and to locate girls absent from roll call at a fire drill...
...serious student, after a high school that consists of intensive drill in memorization and very little else, enters the university at about 18 . . .is confined to a single 'faculty,' and never, intellectually speaking, gets outside it. Then and there he is committed for life to theology, law, or medicine." To impart knowledge of other fields is not the university's job. "It is a professional training ground, and it imparts standard and formal disciplines. In the university, the professor tells the student, and on examinations, the student repeats what the professor has told...
...swarming office workers out for the morning cup. In Washington, Ohio's Representative George Bender grumbled: "The Government buildings at coffee hour turn into skeletons. They look like recess time at school. The boys & girls dash off for coffee as if rehearsing for fire drill...
...Enrollment," he said, "will be determined by how much more classroom and drill space the College will grant, as well as the number of additional hours of classroom instruction allowed. Rulings on additional instructors and equipment by the Department of the Army may be further limiting factors...
...afternoon games at the Arena, second place Winthrop rallied to beat Adams, 5 to 2, and Eliot squeezed out a 3 to 2 victory over Leverett. Fritz Drill's three goals led Winthrop's scoring...