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Carswell's winning entry, "Beating the System," appeared on the editorial page of the CRIMSON on June 14 of last year. It contained detailed instructions on how the academically unprepared student could fool the grader on his exams. His thesis was outlined under three headings, "The Vague Generality," "The Artful Equivocation," and "The Overpowering Assumption...
...what am I that I should not seem For the song's sake a fool...
...that by misdirecting the audience with frenzied gestures, meanwhile speeding through lines, they might hide the fact that the dialogue makes no pretense at being funny. The women, including Barbara Poses, Patricia Rosenwald, and Marilyn Welch succeed better than the men, but it's hard to fool a whole audience for three acts...
Manhattan's Federal Judge Harold Medina, one of the notable jurists in Dallas for the opening of Southern Methodist University's new Legal Center (see EDUCATION) doffed his formal grey Homburg for a blue-green five-gallon Stetson ("I feel like a damn fool in the thing"), then climbed aboard an old stagecoach provided by his host the Dallas Bar Association, rode out to take in his first rodeo and outdoor barbecue at a nearby ranch party...
Recently, however, several things have puzzled and confused him. Carefully calculating the number of $90 rooms in each House, the number of "cums" in each field of concentration, and the most fool proofway of establishing foreign citizenship-he has not seen the posters nor heard the ticket hucksters advertise his Spring Dance. Only fifteen tickets were sold, so last Saturday's affair was called...