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Wearing this badge of merit the intrepid Yardling will thus become the first of his class to run the gauntlet of laundry salesmen, cleaning and pressing representatives and gunners vendors who are expected to be out in full force to greet the somewhere Freshmen...
...below this week's level. This was a further clue that the Administration is leading up to a new anti-inflation program that will provide subsidies, lower farm price ceilings and some kind of wage adjustment. On one front peace had been made, but Wickard threw down the gauntlet for another feud with the farm bloc...
Because most of the last day's registration in former years has come between 10 and 12 o'clock in the morning, upperclassmen are advised by veterans of the gauntlet to register early to avoid crowds and speed up the process of getting through Memorial Hall...
Formally opening the first full scale summer session in the College's three centuries, the new Freshmen, several accompanied by their girls, fathers, or mothers, went through the mill with a minimum of difficulties, and survived the gauntlet of salesmen from the Lampoon to the laundry representatives, and finally emerged laden with free copies and blotters...
Fathers who accompany their sons are permitted to run the registration gauntlet with their progeny, but mothers are politely seated at the East end of the Hall and told to wait...