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Those Who Only Breathe? "In terms of numbers and competition," Marson later admitted, "it is, of course, now harder to get into college. But this is a relative thing. Scholarship requirements are much more lax now than they were 20 years ago. In fact, admission criteria have nothing to do with scholarship. They are based on tests that do not test scholarship. In the state universities, it's even worse. All you have to do in most of them is to breathe to gain admission...
Recently, the University police have become somewhat lax in the enforcement of parking regulations. The recent snows have aggravated the problem of off-street parking so that positive action has become necessary...
...trim '(5 ft. 10 in., 140 lbs.) Herb Hames, 35, helped close down Ottawa's wide-open gambling joints with stories that played up their owners' political connections. He flailed away at thimblerigging in La Salle County's tax assessments, flayed the city government for lax enforcement of liquor laws. Bucking opposition from tax-conscious merchants, Editor Hames also swung the paper behind such long-needed improvements as sewer and school construction. For three straight years after Editor Hames took over in 1951, the Republican-Times walked off with the 16-state Inland Daily Press Association...
Behind that statement is the fact that Texas customs (and lax grand juries) make it easier there than in any other state for a murderer to escape punishment. Of the 136 killings in 1957, only 27 cases went to trial. Only one defendant got the death penalty, and only one a life sentence. The rest got a variety of jail terms-and two of the terms, for five years each, were suspended...
...Young people are unbelievably lax and careless about accepting or rejecting college acceptances. The director of admissions at one first-rate university told me that after the deadline for answering offers of admission, there were 200 boys who had not even bothered to reply. Add to this the startling fact that in the summer of 1957, in one state, there were a dozen good colleges whose freshmen classes were not yet filled, and that one excellent university opened with 50 places vacant. All these are grim facts. A tremendous waste of time and effort is involved...