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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other ranking left guard, Chub Peabody, is not fully recovered from the pounding he took from the Cadets last Saturday and may not be able to start tomorrow. In that event, handyman George Downing would be moved up to first team left guard. Wingman Joe Koufman has a good chance to play against the Wildcats, but tackle Mono Hallett is still on the shelf...
Paul Olum '40, of Binghamton, N. Y., and Eliot House was elected to the coveted post of First Marshal of the Phi Beta Kappa Society last night, as the Junior Eight met in the Lowell House tutors' common room to vote on the Society's executive personnel and to determine the 16 men from the Senior class to be taken in at this election...
Most overlooked but one of the best men in the band is first saxist Milt Yaner. And if you don't think that having a first sax that knows how to lead a section is important, listen to Benny Goodman's orchestra right now. He has one of the best alto solo men around, but when the section plays together, it sounds like a battle royal. With Jimmy's bunch, however, it's just one smooth tone, and Yaner is the gentleman responsible for this very telling factor...
...comes from the same North Carolina school that Hal Kemp did. In fact, he did arrangements for Kemp for a while, but found that the Goodman-Basic style was more to his liking, and so he started a band on this idea. Results are not bad, the band's first record (Vocalion) "Tea for Two" being well arranged, with some decent solos...
...place of a rigid up-or-out system, far better would be a plan of advancement based on two standards. The first would be a man's ability as a teacher and as a scholar; the second, the current teaching needs of the university. If these criteria are used it means the creation of an additional associate professorship whenever needed. Such a system of promotion does not necessarily imply a large block of frozen professors, but it does mean that the administration has an open mind regarding their possible...