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Almost all U. S. colleges have some kind of rule to regulate drinking, but last week the University of Pennsylvania decided to enforce one. Since Repeal, liquor has flowed freely in Penn's fraternity houses and four have cropped out with bars. Because 31 of the houses have been transferred to University ownership to escape taxes, they fall under a University rule which prohibits drinking on University property. This year the Interfraternity Council, at the suggestion of Penn's administration, circulated a questionnaire which revealed that not one fraternity house was dry. As the University announced last week...
Next to removing the Liberty Bell from Independence Hall or the fat statue of William Penn from atop the City Hall, the most preposterous suggestion to any Philadelphian would be that Curtis Publishing Co. (Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, Country Gentleman) would rise from its great 12-story brick and steel nest where it prints 17,500,000 magazines every month*, ruffle its tail feathers and waddle away to another State...
...local games, while the hitting has not been of the fence-busting variety. If the team does come out of its lethargy, a Harvard victory is in the offing, for the Ithacans have dropped their only League encounter, a 3-2 defeat at the hands of Penn. A defeat, however, will probably find Coach Mitchell shaking up his club next week...
First on that trip the team overwhelmed Penn State. Then it played Maryland, breeder of all-Americans, and lost and then Navy and was shellacked. They didn't expect to beat Maryland, but the shouldn't have gone to places against the Navy. Answer lies simply in the fact that the Harvard team played a zone defence in that game for the first time, with a result comparable to what often happens in such cases...
Twelve to two and 19-2 defeats by Maryland and Navy followed an opening 11-1 victory over Penn State in the Varsity lacrosse team's vacation trip...