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Only 35.3 per cent of last year's Freshmen made Dean's List in June, a "serious" drop of over seven per cent from the class of '60, according to the annual report on the Freshman year which was released yesterday. Dean von Stade called the drop "disappointing and, to a great extent, baffling." Not since 1948 has a Freshman class has a smaller percentage in Group III or above...
...House of Representatives and sent to the Senate last week: a four-year extension of the military draft, strongly backed by the Eisenhower Administration and the House Democratic and Republican leadership. A serious attempt to limit the extension to two years was made by Iowa's freshman Democrat Leonard Wolf, 33, backed by a large group of young Congressmen, including many first-termers. A voice vote was taken on Wolf's two-year amendment and declared lost. But it was more than close enough to call for a standing vote-which Democrat Wolf did not demand. His explanation...
...lowered to the calm sea, jaunty, mustachioed Colonel John Jacob Astor IV went down with the unsinkable ship Titanic while the orchestra played "Hold me up, mighty waters, / Keep my eye on things above." That left a nervous, narrow-chested youth of 6 ft. 4 in., perhaps the greenest freshman at Harvard, to inherit a fortune of approximately $87.2 million, organized around vast and spreading holdings, including some of Manhattan's finest hotels-the Astoria. St. Regis, Knickerbocker. Cambridge and Astor House. It was 1912, apogee of the Progressive Era and the nation's damnation of what Theodore...
Last week the young men of the Harvard Crimson made another bow to the inevitable encroachment of womankind, and for the first time elected a girl writer to their editorial board. Their choice came with well-established credentials. She is Alice Patterson Albright, 18, redheaded Radcliffe freshman and a fifth-generation heir apparent to the famed Patterson-McCormick newspaper publishing dynasty of New York and Chicago...
...President Laurence M. Gould: "We give $6 billion to the farmers but don't expect any loyalty oath." Said President Courtney Smith of Swarthmore: "Sheer nonsense. You don't start out by saying that you don't trust your students, by asking a 17-year-old freshman to take an oath...