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...Radcliffe girl was obviously disappointed. She called to say that the Harvard Outing Club had challenged Radcliffe to a softball game, to be played Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock, and now the HOC was backing out. After 20 'Cliffedwellers, including most of the Garden Street regulars who trounced Pembroke, had signed to play, the Outing Club was reported to have backed out of its challenge because its members were busy studying for finals...
...instructor is essentially the foundation on which the tutorial system rests, any question of a sufficiency or insufficiency of funds, or of the ability of some students to absorb anything from the tutorial method, is de trop without first a thorough overhauling of the guiding standards of the ad hoc committee. Unless a higher premium is placed on good teaching, the tutorial system can only continue to dissatisfy an increasing number of students and Faculty...
...Chinese first compiled a glossary of 219 ideographical combinations to cover the abstract words of San Francisco, running the gamut of international cooperation, from ad hoc to Yalta. By last week the glossary had tripled in size...
...change in location and season made little difference in the reception of ancient class parts. The Ivy Oration, by Joseph C. Scott, was greeted with applause and laughter from the "Classmatibus hic haec hoc anno domini c pluribus unum veritas ad infinitum hocus pocus salutem" at the beginning, to the imitation of a History I professor who declared at the end, that "the chaos to which we are now subjected is like the screechings and scratching of a great orchestra, which is in reality but tuning up to play a great triumphal march-the Overture in Africa-and the Finale...
...rugged hiker, skier, bicyclist or canoeist, or if you just like a weekend change of scenery the HOC hopes to be able to offer a program suited to your taste. As an added attraction for lazy undergraduates, some of the Outing Club's excursions offer athletic credit...