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Toward the middle of the field two squads were scrimmaging. Stephen B. Cohen '61, a husky fullback, drove through a maze of tacklers for nearly fifteen yards. A few minutes later he repeated the effort. Further up the field the "A" squad was sharpening its offense. A speedy little performer barked signals and deftly pitched out to a halfback. The quarterback's name was Charles D. Ravenel...
...July, when Flanagan's appointment came up before the Senate Post Office and Civil Service Committee, the Committee's questioning disclosed the fact that he had made at least fifteen dishonest statements on his Civil Service applications. Flanagan admitted these dishonesties. Although the Committee and the Senate as a whole obviously did not favor Flanagan's nomination, Adams was determined to push his appointment through Congress. The White House was saved this embarrassing effort when Flanagan resigned, "for the good of the Republican Party...
...Fifteen minutes later, the Deputies listened in stunned silence as the Premier introduced a bill forbidding ministers, government officials, Deputies, Senators, and members of the royal family from dealing in any way with companies having or seeking contracts from the government. They would also be banned from getting involved in arbitration in any government case, and Deputies who were attorneys would be barred from practicing law during their term of office. The penalty for any violations: two to four years' solitary confinement...
Admirers of Mr. Rodgers will be glad to know that he is writing almost exactly the same sort of music today as he was fifteen years ago. The only difference is that his songs, always easy to remember, are now also easy to forget...
...should defend its autonomy when endangered by administrative officiousness, and it should protect both its teachers and students from abusive restrictions from the outside. But in this case the abuses of graduate study come from within the departments themselves. It is the men who drag on as long as fifteen years in vague pursuit of a Ph.D., stalling, cluttering the files with never-consummated thesis topics, who abuse the admirable leniency of the present system. Yet not everyone can or should manage a thesis in three years and a degree in four. Factors such as the depth of the research...