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...first of these two idle pieces, the hubbub centers around Gracie Allen and George Burns, as the sponsors of the Platt Golf Ball hour. But one is scarcely expected to be content with the inanitities of the one as parried by the harshness of the other. For recruits from the other come in troops. There are Jack Benny and Bob (Bazooka) Burns, Martha Ray and Benny Fields, and Leopold Stokowski doing some extraordinary things with his hands, which his orchestra turns into music...
Last week 150 men took the makeups and 33 were released from probation including Platt and Scott. Both of these men studied during the summer with the hope of gaining exemption in the fall. Scott got an 81 in his exam, while Platt got a 78 at the same time had four "qualities" in other subjects, thus relieving himself of probation under the second part of the rule...
...publicity over Platt, Gallagher, and Scott arose largely from a premature story printed last Friday that both of these football players were still ineligible. When it was officially announced by the Dean's office that Platt and Scott had passed the makeups, a flood of queries came from the metropolitan press as to why the Dean's office had changed its mind in the case of these two athletes. Actual fact of the matter was that the Dean's Office had not changed it's mind suddenly and that Scott and Platt had taken the usual makeups in accordance with...
Much excitement has been occasioned in college ranks by the news that two Yale athletes, Platt and Scott, have been declared eligible for Varsity football, although officially put on probation last spring. Is Yale going "big time" too? In the atmosphere of professionalism, which has again this fall become more and more marked in college athletics, such events are viewed with a thoroughly jaundiced eye more often than not with justification...
...summer school; they are taken by all men who have failed one course the spring before; they have existed, with a modification three years ago making the rules stiffer for a long time, and they are an integral part of the Yale academic schedule. This September 33 men (baside Platt and Scott) were relieved of probation, for getting honors in makeups...