Word: elects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kelly, a "Grottie" like his uncle, was captain of the 1935 Harvard football team, studied at Oxford, taught history, football and Bible at Exeter, was a communications officer in the Navy. Modest Headmaster-elect Kelly doesn't feel he is ready for his new job. He plans to take next year off, to attend Harvard's Graduate School of Education-and learn how to be a headmaster...
...psychiatrists themselves had more solemn problems on their minds. Their profession, they thought, was facing a task even graver than its job in wartime. Said famed Psychoanalyst William C. Menninger, the new A.P.A. president-elect: "No longer is the world cursed with smallpox or cholera or yellow fever. . . . We have learned to eliminate space and to annihilate people, but we still lag far behind in learning how to get along with each other. . . . Is there any hope that medicine, through its Cinderella, psychiatry, can step forward to offer its therapeutic effort to a world full of unhappiness and maladjustment...
...been calm, but underneath there has been an unusually tense competition for scholastic honors. While there has been little of the goldfish-swallowing type of revelry, interest in almost every field of extracurricular activity has been high. Activities which lapsed during the war have been revived. And while Dean-elect Bender and others have frequently pointed out the egocentric nature of the present undergraduates, they have at least been individually conscious of the significance of events outside the college sphere...
...Dean-elect Bender looked thoughtfully into the future at Milwaukee last week and squarely faced some of the problems confronting him when he takes office next month. One of the most pressing, and at the same time most difficult to solve, is that of maintaining the mature calibre of student that the veteran influx has brought to the Yard. Only 150 veterans are entering in the Summer and Fall terms and the vast flood of applicants that engulfed University Hall a year ago will soon dwindle to the lesser flow of former years in the absence of GI subsidies...
...pound hammer throw, Jack Fisher and Sam Felton; Captain Wes Flint in the high and low hurdles; Freshman javelin find, Don Trimble; pole vaulters Pete Harwood and Bill Lawrence; high jumper Gene Harrigan; Bill Jackson, who will put the shot and double in the discuss with Felton; Captain-elect Frank Gurley in the mile; and Ted Withington, whose 49-second anchor leg last Saturday convinced Jaakko that he was capable of meeting IC4A 440 competition...