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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fighting Rooster. Rushing into a death-created vacancy, Prosecutor Halleck won the Second Congressional District seat in 1935, thus became the only Hoosier among the 103 House Republicans left after Democratic landslides. "I felt like a banty rooster in a barn lot full of Percherons," he says. "I said, 'Boys, let's be mighty careful about stepping on one another.' " But caution was never Hoosier. His all-out kicks at New Deal and Fair Deal "regimentation and extrava gance" won him toe hold enough in the national G.O.P. to give a practical political push to the campaign...
House-centered Reunions would be "a fine thing for reuning classes," Dean Monro commented. "The Houses would be a good place to spend the Reunion, since the House means so much to the returning alumnus." He thought that there was "considerable attachment to the Houses," and that "a lot of people would want to go back...
...other hand, Bender pointed out that adding more commuters is a "relatively inexpensive" way of enlarging the College. "By building the new non-resident center, and making the lot of the commuters more attractive, we could handle 500 students, for example, at a much lower cost than residence involves...
...addition, this year's compulsory reading test for new students, the first of its kind given anywhere, "showed that, while incoming undergraduates had a lot of reading power, they still had a lot to learn about using it," he stated. The test, which presented a history passage to be read and assimilated under normal study conditions, was an attempt to assess flexibility and concentration...
...turn out willingly for school, before long learn to write respectable essays. One of them: "I am the soncor bird. I live in the forest where there are no people. I eat the pasarochllom seed. Wherever I see the pasarochllom seed, that is the thing I will eat a lot of. My coat appears like a cloud. My coat is white dotted like the clouds. My children appear like the sky. I live with my children in the forest. My children are very much crybabies if their mother leaves them. Thus cry my children: 'Cheb, cheb, cheb...