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After Bareiter had hung in the gusty air for something like half an hour, his helpers, John Rogers and Charles Hahne, climbed up a fire ladder and, by means of a long pole, got a pulley and rope up to him which he hitched to the guy wire. Helper Rogers then snaked up the rope, cut the tangled rope from Bareiter's ankle, lowered him from his blowy height to the roof and safety...
...university, where the emphasis rests on individual responsibility and where no helping hands are stretched out from above, the Freshman is often snowed under by a storm of new and entirely different experiences. The transition between school and college is in many cases the hardest step on the scholastic ladder, and for the college to recognize individual troubles and to give them personal attention is only to fulfill an integral part of its educational responsibility...
Coach Harry Cowles will get his squash candidates under way today with a ladder of 18 picked men. Thirty-two men have reported, but the ladder has been set up with the 18 most promising racqueteers. Coach Cowles points out however, that the men picked to compete in the ladder will have to demonstrate their ability and that they may lose their places to any of the other 14 reporting for the team...
...most minor of all minor sports, ping pong, has risen to such an extent that there are now two regular University teams and a large handicap tournament every Wednesday evening. The two teams, the Harvard Independents and the Tennis and Squash Shop Racketmen, are chosen from a bumping ladder...
...players for the scrimmage scenes, and also succeeded in lightening the romance by typical, though well-chosen, sophomoric wisecracks. Though roommates Benny Baker and Tom Brown carry most of the scenes, the same Eleanore Whitney whose star faded so suddenly this summer gives herself a boost back up the ladder in this grid Irony romance...