Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Treaty of Westphalia, at the end of the Thirty Years' War, left the Holy Roman Empire minus 40,000 square miles (mostly to France and Sweden), gave it an indefensible frontier with France, broke it into 300 principalities...
...Club's first contribution to the university. It was a photograph; professing to be a composite picture of Princeton's 2,100 students-the typical Princeton undergraduate, 1940-style. Next day the composite was found to be a hoax-a retouched photo of swashbuckling Cinemactor Errol Flynn, minus mustache and with a crew haircut. Said the unabashed In & Out Club: "What's wrong with the picture...
...teaches public speaking at New York University, revised and enlarged his ratings for public speakers as of 1940: grade C-Cordell Hull, Paul V. McNutt ("an orator, not a public speaker"), Robert A. Taft; Grade B plus-Arthur H. Vandenberg (too harsh) and Thomas E. Dewey; Grade A minus-Franklin D. Roosevelt (A plus until he "started to scold"); Grade A plus -Herbert Hoover (Grade...
Keeping count of every A minus and cut of upperclassmen, a First Marshal of Phi Beta Kappa, first scholar in his class, and former CRIMSON editorial chairman, now teaching German, Reginald H. Phelps '30, heads the Records Office where the life history of every student is filed away...
...time you graduate, the Dean's Office will have in its files everything worth knowing about you from the time that you tipped a fire extinguisher over in Weld Hall until you got your last C minus in History