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...saltiest commentator on U. S. education, from which he makes his living but for which he has a certain amused contempt, Porter Sargent prefaces his famed annual catalogue of 4,000 private schools with his shrewd opinions on men and affairs. Last week, in the 22nd edition of his Handbook of Private Schools, he threw most of his custard pies at the two most popular favorites of U. S. higher education -President James Bryant Conant of Harvard and President Robert Maynard Hutchins of University of Chicago...
...large number of disconcerted readers who are mystified by some of the modern excursions into versification, Robert Hillyer's "First Principles of Verse" will allow them to regain their equilibrium by its clear presentation of the fundamental elements of poetry. It is a practical, elementary handbook for the poet or critic, but its significance lies in the ultra-conservative attitude of this well-known modern poet, who has been completely uninfluenced by the meanderings of some of his contemporaries...
Other committees announced by President-Elect Edmond LaB. Cherbonnier '39 are: Freshman Handbook, J. Warren Palm '40; Senior Advisory, C. Tiffany Richardson, Jr. '39, Roger Pierce, Jr. '39, Edward H. Schoyer '39, Elisworth S. Grant '39, and Langdon B. Gilkey '40; Dental School, Seth Craig, Jr. 3Dn; Medical School, Walter I. Tucker 3M; Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Stanley C. Salmen...
...wife again, he had told her his real name, revealed that while she had been contracting two marriages he had contracted 19, mostly to correspondents of a matrimonial publication called Cupid's Messenger. The two joined forces and Cupid's Messenger, thereafter, became the Hebner handbook. Mrs. Hebner advertised herself in it, left home temporarily to marry a Montana rancher whom she subsequently deserted as "too cranky." Mrs. Hebner advertised herself again, this time got herself a Putnam, Okla. farmer. Again she returned to Pocahontas and Hebner. She said he went away last year and she went...
According to the new constitution, the Vice-President will choose and have full charge of the Freshman Committee and will represent the Freshman Committee and will represent the Freshmen on the Cabinet. He will also have charge of the Freshman Handbook...