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...gives informal talks to alumni across the U.S., the dean of admissions of a famous Ivy League university likes to give the old grads a jolt. "If you were to apply for your alma mater today," he is quoted as saying, "only 20% of you would get it." In that particular ploy, the dean is not alone. Says Acting President Archibald Macintosh of Haverford College : "I have occasionally talked to alumni about getting into Haverford today and have told them, 'I sometimes doubt if I would have admitted myself...
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...social functions of the Club definitely predominate the activities of its more than 6300 members. It is a sanctuary for those who wish to escape the City and return to the womb of their College days to participate once again in the Georgian splendors of their Alma Mater. From the lovely new rugs in the main hall embossed with the Veritas Seal to the squash courts on the upper floors, the Club manages to achieve the University ideal of gracious living which never quite comes across in the Houses...
...constituted in theory, is a group of colleges interested in friendly, healthful competition which will be a source of recreation to those qualified to play. In view of obvious attempts by alumni of the institutions to send the best players of their home area to their own Alma Mater, one wonders whether they believe in the original, "superior," Ivy League "way". Last November 24th, 40,000 people at the Stadium paid about five dollars a head to see eleven Blue shirts prove their superiority over eleven Crimson ones. This was $200,000 worth of recreation, which is real...
...will to prove both points of pride. Not counting 235 bottles of scotch, 165 bottles of champagne, 15 gallons of pure alcohol and one bottle "of Howard County applejack (all of which went down the drain to avoid tax complications), he left a round $900,000 to his alma mater, Johns Hopkins University, to build Shriver Hall of materials "the best obtainable in the world." And he tied his bequest down with stipulations that made it to his confreres "one of the most remarkable documents of our time...