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There are those about us who are participating in this project: for example, the Boston & Albany Railroad, local trains on the Boston & Maine, and the sovereign towns of Bellows Falls, Bennington, Brattleboro, and Rutland (all in Vermont). Standing against A.S.T. are the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, including local services; the Central Vermont Railroad, including trains to and through certain enclaves; all airlines; and the United States mails...
...criticize the Athletic Department's one-week-old distribution system may seem a little like carping, especially since we haven't forgotten the ceaseless waiting in endless lines that took so much time in past years. Besides eliminating this dreary business, the new plan also saves the H.A.A. the amount of time it took to hear the myriad requests from each person. The process of putting all the applications from one class together, mixing them up, and assigning seats at random is eminently fair and more efficient as well...
...ignorance. Since, however, even people who have been to Europe are usually bored when others talks about it, the Inpatriate should occasionally interject a question such as, "Has England got rid of that awful Chamberlain yet?' In the ensuing astonishment someone is bound to ask, "What! Haven't you been across?" It is now that you apply the clincher, the beauty of this ploy being the two possible routes of denouement...
...first, and perhaps the simplest method, is to reply, "Why no, I haven't been across, not recently that is. Of course, I lived there until I was eight, but then . . . you know . . . the Nazis . . . had to leave (your voice should break about here) . . . wouldn't go back for the world . . . memories you know. But (brighten up here) don't you think I've done wonders with that beastly German accent?" Since the only accent you posses is a slight Oxford drawl, picked up during occasional inter-House meals at Eliot, your listeners can not but be impressed...
...varsity baseball team split its pair of games with a favored Yale squad; Ken Rossano and Andy Ward pitched the Crimson to a 4-2 win at New Haven, but the Elis came back to win, 6 to 5, in Cambridge. After the game, catcher George L. MacDonald, Jr. '55 of Eliot House and Marblehead, was elected captain for next spring...