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Neither Hal Ulen nor Tiger coach Howie Stepp will pay much about the contest. Both need a win tonight, as upper-bracket standing in the Eastern Intercollegiate League is at stake. Princeton will have the benefit of being at home in its spanking new Dillon pool--the most ultra-modern dixiecup in the east. The Crimson, on the other hand, has a somewhat better record this season and possibly the edge in material...
...charges of thievery and corruption, and numerous side issues. the stakes are oil, currently the nation's most important natural resource. Peacetime use of oil has steadily increased, creating an unexpected and unfilled post-war demand, and its wartime value has made the possession of large oil reserves a modern prerequisite of modern warfare...
Parallel with the satire in The Price Is Right, Weidman tries something bigger; he appears to offer Henry Cade as a sort of modern Macbeth, a surrogate for all men gnawed by too much ambition. But Weidman's Macbeth remains strictly from Madison Avenue, and one side of the street at that...
Latin and Greek are worthwhile studies for English concentrators, but other fields are equally worthwhile. History, Government, and modern languages, for example, are certainly as vital to most present English honors candidates as the classics. Unfortunately, the English Department's honors system isn't based on modern times. It harks back to the days when Latin and Greek were about the only non-scientific fields in the academic world...
Scholars need Latin and Greek, and any English concentrator who plans to do intensive research in ancient periods will naturally learn these languages. But many students choose more modern times for study, and they will need sociology and economics--not Virgil and Homer. If they want honors, they are forced to spend valuable time on Latin or Greek whether they like it or not, unless their pre-college training has taken care of the requirement. But in the last decade or so, not only has the emphasis on the classics been relaxed in college preparation, but more freshmen are entering...