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...favor of a reform in the language requirements and demands greater freedom of choice for the individual has been convincingly proved by the first replies to the Student Council's Language Questionnaire. Two hundred questionnaires have been returned to the Council's special committee, of which Arthur S. Pier, Jr. '35 is chairman, and of these a great majority express dissatisfaction with the prevailing system and in particular urge entire abolition of the elementary requirement...
These questionnaires were sent out a week ago by Pier's committee to 379 students selected on a proportionate basis from the rank lists of the three upper classes, and in the case of the Freshmen chosen at random. The nature of the replies has convinced the Student Council that most of the men solicited have been reasonably imparcial in their judgement and that there is little or no connection between specific men's positions on the rank list and their opinions of the language system...
...visiting couples keep their more wayward ideas to the privacy of hotel rooms, that male bathers keep their shirts on. Perhaps even more of a civic monument is Mayor Harry Bacharach, who attracted considerable attention two years ago when he moved his office to a space on an amusement pier between a chimpanzee and a hermaphrodite so that job-seeking visitors must pay 25? apiece...
...questionnaire, which is shortly to be submitted to the entire undergraduate body, is the work of a special committee appointed by the Student Council under the chairmanship of Arthur S. Pier '35. Other members of the committee are Francis D. Moore '35, Edwin I. Brainard '35, and Robert C. Hall...
...mile--Pier, Playfair...