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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every Princetonian knows in some form or other the story of Joe Gish, a student invented by a group of the Class of 1905 whose creators kept him alive for nearly four years by enrolling for extra courses under his name until five of them accidentally signed chapel cards for him the same day.* In one of his stories Princeton's Author F. Scott Fitzgerald changed Joe Gish into an ape. Last week it was revealed that all this spring a band of prankish seniors at Iowa State College (Ames) had actually persuaded their psychology, botany and chemistry instructors...
...plan of campaign was carefully worked out for all the Spanish fronts in the next few weeks. As an extra dividend Italy threw in one more general, Alfredo Guzzoni, no Fascist militiaman but a regular officer of long service and proven ability...
...over each car as if it were a racer rolling into the pits. They are also under strict instructions "never to engage a lady in conversation only as she leads." During the two months that the Coryell offices will remain in Colorado Springs, each staff member will receive $50 extra pay "for their good times." But the office vacation takes the place of the usual two-weeks-off-with...
...have reason; men are animals." Composer Alban Berg articulated the same opinion with his opera Wozzeck. When he based an opera on Wedekind's Lulu, Berg produced the most impressive monument of lust in all musical literature. When orchestral excerpts from it were played at the Berlin Staatsoper, extra police squads stood by to govern the crowds. Lulu was given in concert form in Boston and New York, but never as a full opera before Composer Berg died in 1935 while still orchestrating the last...
Several of the other Houses have also found it possible to rearrange a few suites so as to accomodate several extra men. By these changes about fifteen men have been taken into the Houses above the number originally announced at the time of the first assignment...