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Party, to an island off the northwestern French coast and they took heart from French reverses in Indo-China and confusion in Paris...
...Valuable Player" award this spring, was out on bail after a 19-year-old M.S.C. coed accused him of rape. Otherwise, said Coach Hugh ("Duff") Daugherty, "our squad's behavior is as good as any in the country." ¶ Finally fed up with an accumulation of ugly incidents, Northwestern University shut down the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity house - the first fraternity ever banned in the university's history. Among the grievances against it: 40% of the brothers are on academic probation; eight have been suspended from school after unauthorized drinking parties; one, upon leaving such a party...
...himself in difficult positions all his life (from trapping skunks as a boy to testing explosives as a soldier and a scientist). Recognized as a brilliant teacher and a foremost U.S. expert on explosives, Evans has retired twice, and is still working. In 1946 he retired as head of Northwestern University's chemistry department. Then, in 1947, at his country home near Lancaster, Pa., he received a wire asking him to join the staff at Loyola. He promised his wife he would not take the job, set off to walk a quarter of a mile to the village store...
...After questioning 128 colleges and universities, the Northwestern National Life Insurance Co. of Minneapolis announced that this year's graduates should have no worry about getting jobs. Of the 128 campuses, 68 reported the same number of calls from business as in 1953, only 22 said they had fewer, and 38 reported a jump. As for beginning salaries, they were up another $10 to $25 a month-$290 to $340 for liberal-arts graduates, $350 to $400 for engineers...
After a good many years of taking criticism by distinguished visiting scholars from Britain and Europe, Philosopher Douglas N. Morgan of Northwestern University decided it was time to complain. Last week, in a letter to the Manchester Guardian, he talked back. Fond as the U.S. is of visitors, said he, too many"come to America armed with a conviction that we are infants, that our academic degrees - not earned at Oxford or Cambridge - are travesties, and that even our graduate students are merely overgrown addicts of football and television...