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...CRIMSON rally on Plympton Street last night whipped the College into a frenzy of excitement on the eve of the encounter. Such sporting luminaries as Richard C. Fallow and major Boston were on hand to bolster the spirits of the team, which were being siphoned off gradually...
...transition between school and life in an upperclass House, the first year should not be the time when the student lies fallow. It should be a time for indoctrination into the varied Harvard life, for the basis of friendships, and for the nucleus of a feeling of Class unity that will last after graduation. The almost discarded idea of classes is still a good one, providing the basis for many points of contact, often on a more common feeling than the Houses provide. The way to this integration is plenty of publicity aimed at the arriving men, a vigorous program...
...taking on a new kind of enemy-organized brigands called dacoits who held Burma's hinterlands in a reign of terror. In a single recent month Burma has reported 1,350 dacoities.* Because frightened paddy field workers cowered in their homes and half Burma's fields lay fallow, Burmans went hungry and Indians and Chinese starved for lack of Burma's rice...
...Theodore Roosevelt Jr., speaking at a "career clinic" at Adelphi College (Garden City, L.I.), offered advice on marriage. Some of it: "Don't take your husband for granted. Don't let your brain be fallow. . . . Take an intelligent interest. . . . Don't be a yes-woman ... keep your criticisms to the minimum. . . ." A career and marriage can't be mixed in equal parts, said she, for "one is sure to become a hobby...
...lenient (in the Provincial Legislature last fortnight, the Government's agriculture committee recommended legislation making it illegal for Canadian Japs, wherever born, to own or lease any land or business). Anti-Jap feeling was strong elsewhere, too. Alberta's Public Works Minister W. A. Fallow said that his Province wanted no postwar Japs. Quebec's Premier Maurice Duplessis said that he would take "necessary steps" to see that no Japs were relocated in his Province. Said Nova Scotia's Premier A. S. MacMillan: "We've got troubles enough...