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...when Hitler walked into Russia. The number one example of this is David Francis Egan '23, whose acid comments about the state of Harvard football during the era of Gladchuck and O'Rourke, were not meant for publication in the Alumni Bulletin. Following the Dartmouth victory Egan started his flip-flop, and after the Navy deadlock he reached down into his asbestos-lined dictionary to pull out words and phrases not used since B.C.'s adventures with Georgetown and Tennessee last year...
With acute insight and poignant character interpretation, she portrays the Vassar girls you've met at House dances and chatted with on the lawns at Poughkeepsie. There's Flip, editor of the Vassar Review, who wants to write but isn't sure of her talent. Gary, once the child prodigy poetess, is now a harried girl facing expulsion for having tried to cheat her way into Phi Beta Kappa to fulfill her father's expectations. Jill, who is blonde and beautiful and brainless, wants the bright lights of the stage; Liz serious and restrained, wants the security of a wedding...
...girls not only stand out as distinct individuals but also mature in the course of the volume. At points the intimate realism in describing Flip's artistic ambitions, her crush on Professor Brooks Creighton, and her feeling of estrangement from the life at home, approaches the bitter dissection of college life in Wolfe's "Look Homeward, Angel"-though Miss Carrick's approach lacks his sweeping inclusiveness and turgid power. Her polished style and delicate portrayal temperament are more in the urbane manner of Willa Cather. Only the concluding chapter betrays a novice hand. The threads of the plot, unsnarled...
Yesterday a new type of football hero earned his free ticket to Valhalla. Phil Alexander '42, double-flip expert and cheerleader-extraordinary, pulled a tendon while doing a "today's acrobatic special...
...tortuous twistings of the Student Union line have been hard enough to follow in the last few years. Last night's flip-flop, one might imagine, should have proved a little difficult for even the most hardened joy-riders in the cab of the famous Locomotive of History. The Executive Committee's report, however, passed with all the ease and speed of a motion to adjourn. The Union found itself unanimously agreed that "the goal of all persons wishing to preserve democracy and the freedom of the peoples of the world must be the military defeat of Hitler...