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...Platoon System. As Crown Princess of Greece, Frederika of Hanover was nearer to occupying a real throne than any member of her family had been for generations. But the shaky throne of the Glücksburgs was no stable institution like the one which long-lived Victoria had kept them from mounting in England. Some 3,000 years before, the ancient Greeks had cast out their hereditary rulers and set up the world's first democratic government. During all but one of the many centuries since the collapse of those democracies, the Greeks have lived as conquered peoples under...
...rink was built primarily as a home for Varsity and House hockey and this is as it should be. The University will be getting only part value for its money, however, if the rink lies fallow between games. Many undergraduates who greatly enjoy skating have come no nearer to a puck than Midsummer Night's Dream. These casual skaters, as well as the hard-toc hockey player, should have a chance to use the rink...
...that "appeasement"? Not in any bad sense. It may be nearer to "the perfect love [which] casteth out fear...
Sargent Kennedy '28, Registrar of the College, said yesterday the College decrease was due to the administration's effort to slice the freshman class from last year's 1,215 to a figure nearer the "ideal" level...
...Kalbaugh, 52, superintendent of the Southern Pacific Railroad's Salt Lake Division, was named manager of the recently rehabilitated and overhauled Alaska Railroad, the only major road owned and operated by the Interior Department. Longtime Railroader Kalbaugh hopes to pump some life into the Alaska, which runs nearer the Arctic Circle than any other American road, and whose annual deficit ($585,000 last year) arrives as regularly as the spring thaw. Kalbaugh joined "So Pac" in 1919 as a clerk in the San Joaquin (Calif.) Division, worked his way up to superintendent of transportation in 1947, took over...