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Harvard's Pete Lazarus passed up the lower heights and did not place after missing three times at 14 feet...
...selecting members for the honoraries is arbitrary, to say the least. What is the justification for assuming that the twenty-five top performers on first-year exams are those most interested in and best suited to writing for a scholarly journal or that those who score a few points lower should prepare Ames cases? Nor is it clear why grades should be deemed the sole measure of competency for most places in Legal...
...curious form of nonsociety to extinction. From a Depression-era high of more than 1,000,-000, the national census of rootless men (and women) has dropped to a scant 100,000, most of them over 50. On the Bowery, a squalid mile-long stretch on Manhattan's Lower East Side bordered by wine dispensaries, flop houses and rescue missions, annual head counts of the residents have disclosed a steady attrition. Between 1949 and 1967, the population of the Bowery fell from 13,675 to 4,851. Every year the population declines another 5%-a rate that would reduce...
...carries with him the smell of smoldering cordite. If he were not lit with inner fire, he would be sin gularly unprepossessing. Alan Brien, col umnist of the London Sunday Times, once described him as having "eyes like poached eggs, hair like treacle tof fee, and a truculent lower lip protruding like a pink front step from the long pale doorway of his face...
...Reducing the number of lower level courses required of biology concentrators from 4 to 3. The department has granted every petition to substitute upper level courses, Briggs said, but many concentrators, unaware of this informal policy, have been forced to take courses in which they have little interest...