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...political science and modern history. Its Warlen--a friend, appropriately enough, of Churchill's,--is W. Deakin, whose reports on the Jugoslav partisans of the war helped substantially to convince the British to hit their support to Tito; its sub-Warden (a sort of Senior Tutor) is James Joll, the ruddy, fluent, enormously charming visiting lecturer who taught Franklin Ford's course on German history this Spring...
Besides the middle name of Bysse, which he never uses, Harvard's Directory of Officers has awarded Joll two degrees, both of which he denies. He attended Winhester and New College, but before being graduated from Oxford he was caught up by the war, and abandoned the study of philosophy to work for British Intelligence. For a time he served as liaison between the War Office and various German emigre political groups in London; and indeed it is from his war experience that he derives much of his interest in modern German history. He returned to New College to teach...
...Joll stresses "the whole field" emphatically, for he is by no means exclusively a historian of Germany. During this term he also led a seminar in European socialism and communism in the interwar period; he has written a book on the Second International, and another on Three Intellectuals in Politics, Leon Blum, Walther Rathenau, and F.T. Marinetti. The last of the three, the Italian futurist painter who had so much in common with D'Anaunzio, is an especially illuminating corner of Joll's work: he confesses to fascination with the "links between artistic and social and political development" in this...
...Melman and Jack Dixon, continually retrieving impossible shots, and big Don Lutze, Varsity basketballer, who held up the offense with lighting spike shots, starred for the winning Kirklanders. Joll Kane and Buz Russell stood out in a good Dunstor lineup...
...publish in another column our plans for receiving and giving out the election returns. We have made arrangements with the Western Union Telegraph Co. by which we are to receive direct from New York the official returns; and these returns we shall cast by stereopticon upon a screen at Joll's barber shop, over Claflin's drug store in the squre. We cannot tell when we shall receive our first returns but they will be cast upon the screen as fast as they come till the final one is received. Since we have made formal arrangements with the proper authorites...