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From there on, the match was close but the result was never in much doubt. Wood, outdriving his opponent by as much as 60 yds., was seldom nearer to the pin with his approaches. Shute, who said later that he had set himself the task of keeping ahead of Wood for the first round, had one tight moment when his approach caught Ginger-beer bunker on the 14th. He pitched out, sank his putt for a birdie and ended the first 18 holes still three strokes up. In the afternoon, Wood took 39 to the turn as he had done...
...Congratulations!" crowed Mr. Morgenthau. "Splendid, Senor Le Breton, simply splendid!" Edging nearer, newshawks got their craws full of a wheat story which carried all sorts of newsy implications, such as possible U. S. recognition of the Soviet Union...
Students suspect that the villian of the piece is attached to the Brattle Street Police Station, when actually the trouble is much nearer home. Aside from the expense and time wasted in court by students waiting to plead guilty, in inertia of University officials has given the local police a black eye which they do not deserve. Repeatedly it has been suggested both in these columns and by the police that the tracts of land surrounding the Business School and New Biological Institute be utilized for parking spaces...
...substitution of men nearer the student, in short, will not solve the fundamental trouble; some method must be found for instructing the Advisers in the details relating to courses and fields of concentration. This might be accomplished by a seminar or meeting among the Advisers themselves, at which information could be exchanged, and at which the opinions of upperclassmen on the courses they had taken might be aired. The Advisers might make it their business to probe the mere esoteric regions of the courses and fields under their jurisdiction. In any case, a more compact and well-informed organization...
...disagreement. I will not seek the hospitable columns of the CRIMSON any more. Yet I do not retire from the fight. I am in the fight still. After all the real fight lies in India and not in the CRIMSON. The sooner such critics retire to oblivion, the nearer is the emancipation of India...