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...that ex-Governor Stassen lacked confidence in his ability to beat isolationist, four-term Senator Henrik Shipstead in the GOPrimaries next July. Stassenites were fully confident that they already had the man to beat Shipstead. He was tall, horny-handed Edward John Thye, who garnered the biggest vote and the biggest majority in Minnesota history when he was elected governor...
Generations of Yale Sheffield Scientific School students, inhabitants of what used to be known in New Haven as "Darkest Sheff." had the luck to take their Engish Lit. with Professor Wilbur L. Cross the salty pedagogue who became a four-term Democratic Governor of Connecticut after his academic retirement in 1930. What the Sheff boys ostensibly got was a dose of Chaucer, the usual Shakespeare, and a ponderable amount of reading in the 18th-Century worthies. Henry Fielding and the "lousy parson," the Rev. Laurence Sterne. But what Wilbur Cross really gave the boys was a liberal education...
...yield to the necessity of completing as much as possible of the present semester before the beginning of the Army program in May, so the demands of the armed forces have made a three term year imperative. Faced with the prospect of teaching College, Summer School, a four-term Army school, and a three-term Navy School with the same faculty, now depleted by 30 percent, the College had to strike at its least useful branch. Closer integration of faculty as signment, of College planning and administration will result from the abolition of the Summer School...
...David Starr Jordan, President Emeritus of Stanford, opposes the four-term system introduced by President Harper at Chicago and now in use in about 24 universities, on the ground that it makes for speed at the cost of thoroughness...