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...famous Lord trail, a nar- row hazard to even the best skiers last year, was given a face lifting and now provides room for any amount of tail-wagging and stemming. Mount Mansfield, hidden in the nether regions of Vermont and a long voyage by train or car, caters to skiers who want to ski and has little social life. It is expensive, but the expense pays for fun over the hickories, not over cocktails...
Twenty-five thousand dollars spread out among some six thousand undergraduates is hardly a gigantic sum of cash. Independent, uncoordinated, hap-hazard drives for assorted charitable organizations quite probably could extract that much from the College without untoward effort. Yet the Student Council, acting as agent for a long list of such worthy agencies, has been able to garner just a bit more than half that amount, despite a two-month campaign that will end on Sunday. Usually, seven-dollar-per-man pledges were signed by the great majority of men at registration in the fall, the money collected...
Chase put his charges through an intensive three-hour scrimmage, employing everyone at least once in an attempt to sort wheat from chaff before the first squad cut on Friday. He would hazard no predictions at practice and, noting only that the team was in far better shape than it was a year ago. But he tempered even this optimism with the statement that "They'd better be; they face the longest, toughest schedule in Crimson history...
...Polio specialists have learned that psychotherapy is as important as physical care: toughest hazard in polio treatment is the patient's panicky fear of the disease...
...patients, Dr. Foss warned, now face a new hazard: many of the 40,000 young medical officers demobilized at war's end have begun to practice surgery without proper training (because surgical posts in hospitals, where they might be trained, are scarce...