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Scotches-Scot. On the big day the students ranged themselves according to their home districts, filed into the student union to cast their ballots. After a half-hour's voting, the booths were closed to allow time for more shoving and throwing of fishheads. After 90 minutes of such relaxation, voting began again. At length, from the balcony above the main gate of University Building, Glasgow's Principal Sir Hector Hetherington read out the results. The race had been close, but the Scotchest Scot of them all had won. Glasgow's new Rector was John MacDonald MacCormick...
...Cronin, proprietor of a well-known Cambridge bar, has decided not to press charges against three "unruly' Dartmouth students. According to Cambridge police Sergeant John lynch, the trio was caught in the act of breaking a plate glass wall mirror at "Jim's Place" at 12:30 a.m. a half-hour after closing time...
...supply of milk and fruit juice to non Coca-Cola partisans. With all this, the Dunster House Committee is hoping to make a notable dent in the sales of Square snack shops. Only with an adequate House demand can they remain in business. And, for these saving a nightly half-hour,, prices will be "fair...
Graduate dining hall employees say that the extra half-hour does not keep them from serving lunch on time. At the College, officials have long been saying that the nine o'clock deadline was essential for cleaning up the dining halls before lunch...
...making an effort to do something. They're short on money, short on talent, but long on inventiveness." And NBC's Herbuveaux, who believes in a change of pace, adds: "After half an hour of being beat over the head by New York, people enjoy a half-hour of leaning back with Chicago...