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...would not expect much more than a combination of "Dear Diary" and Harold Teen in a semi-autobiography describing the senior year of a clique of Vassar girls. In "Consider the Daisies," however, Miss Gertrude Carrick (with the ink scarcely dry on her sheepskin) returns to her alma mater for the setting of an unusually good, strikingly realistic first novel...
...heads of the Harvard fans on top of Soldiers Field. From now on I have no more ideals of the working press, sports division; its representatives are not half so colorful as the assembled members of the Class of '00, gathered together in Row ZZ to watch their Alma Mater roll...
...wind and blocks like a landslide, according to Swirles, and anyone who saw the Middles' blocking back, Johnny Harrell, flatten Vern Miller in under three minutes last winter will not doubt that there is power to spare there. Harrell lays claim to the intercollegiate Heavyweight wrestling title as a mater of fact...
Herbert Hoover turned pollster last week. Irked because 176 facultymen at his alma mater, Stanford University, had signed a manifesto demanding a "more dynamic defense" against totalitarianism, Mr. Hoover personally sent a questionnaire to Stanford's 800 teachers. To Mr. Hoover, "more dynamic defense" meant "military action." His conclusion, released to the interventionist Stanford Daily (see above) : 60% of the faculty disagreed with the signers of the manifesto...
...Coach's bench at Notre Dame, hallowed by the great Rockne's buttprints, is the toughest spot in U.S. football. On it this season is 33-year-old Frank Leahy, who quit Boston College at the chance to coach at Notre Dame (his alma mater) when Elmer Layden last winter resigned to become tsar of the professional National Football League. Besides a traditionally tough schedule, brave Coach Leahy will be further handicapped by his resolve to overthrow the system of a successful predecessor, substituting stuff that may or may not work with the material at hand...