Word: gill
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PRIVATE YANKEE DOODLE (305 pp.)-Joseph Plumb Martin-Little, Brown ($6.50). The Revolutionary War often was fought with tactics that were quaintly old-fashioned or grimly futuristic. During the battle for Fort Mercer, N.J., in 1777, the Americans ran short of ammunition, and soldiers were offered a gill of rum (4 oz.) to retrieve 32-lb. British cannon balls that had fallen short of the mark. U.S. guns then lobbed them back at the British. Near Petersburg, Va., in the closing days of the war, the British captured 700 Negro slaves who had caught smallpox, and deliberately sent them among...
When the House seminars were first discussed in 1958, Richard T. Gill '48, Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Leverett House claimed that the seminars, if organized as substitute non-Honors tutorials, would be as unsuccessful as the regular non-Honors tutorial programs which several Departments have offered in the past. But Gill's response to the problem of the non-Honors concentrator was to suggest changing the Honors program to its present, open form, rather than to alter the seminars...
Conway was quoted in yesterday's CRIMSON as saying that the seminars have been rendered "obsolete" by the Gill Plan for non-Honors Tutorial...
...Gill Plan for non-Honors Tutorial "has rendered House seminars obsolete as a general educational program," according to John J. Conway, Master of Leverett House...
Paul Schnits won a 4-0 decision at 177 and John Valentine worked a 3-3 draw with Charies Coe to assure the Crimson of at least a tie. In a see-saw battle, Gill Wood decisioned Bob Fastov in the heavyweight match...