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Walter B. Carnochan '53 and Leroy S. Rouner '53 will replace Francis Parkman, Jr. '44 and Edward T. Wilcox, who have served as Assistant Deans of Freshmen for the past two years...
Whenever he thought about those three Rocky Mountain peaks, Geologist Leslie W. LeRoy of the Colorado School of Mines got mad. In 1869, it seemed, some Harvard professor had come along to survey the Colorado Rockies, and with typical Ivy League impertinence had named a few of them. The highest peak he measured thus became Mt. Harvard (14,399 ft.), the next highest Mt. Yale (14,172), and a few years later, a third peak naturally was named Mt. Princeton (14,177). Not one Colorado peak bore the name of a Colorado campus...
...LeRoy happened to complain about this situation to a student named Neal Harr, got him so excited that Harr decided to set matters straight. He pored over maps, and from the hundreds of unnamed peaks he picked seven that fitted his own specifications-more than 12,000 ft. high, and located in easy view of a main state highway...
...Must Go" campaign, started on March 18 by Republican Leroy Gore, editor of a Wisconsin weekly, is based on an untried clause in the state constitution which provides for the recall of any elected official. According to the law, petitions against McCarthy signed by one fourth of the number of citizens who voted in 1952, could bring about a now Senatorial election in the state...
...Framingham, Mass.; Richard K. Hurley of Belmont, Mass.; Edward L. Keenan of Orchard Park, N. Y.; Rodney W. Long, Jr., Winchester, Mass.; Lewis D. Lowenfels, New York City; Neil K. Muncaster of Winchester, Mass.; William M. Parmley of Salt Lake City, Utah; Dominic Repetto of Rockville Center, N. Y.; LeRoy H. Scharpen of Red Wing, Minn.; William M. Schreiber of Wooster, Ohio; Robert S. Treisman of Concord, N. H.; John P. Scott of Dallas, Texas...