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Harvard's House plan will come of age next September and shake under-graduate life into a new pattern. No longer will students in trouble be called to University Hall and then plead their case to a Dean they may never have seen before; no longer will honors candidates monopolize the fruits of tutorial. With the appointment by the Board of Overseers this morning of Lowell and Leverett's Allston Burr Senior Tutors. President Lowell's dream, seems practically realized. The College has taken two steps--decentralization of the Dean's Office and revival of tutorial for all concentrators...
...members, the eight Senior Tutors and Registrar Sargent Kennedy will be added to the Administrative Board. Working on the theory that the Senior Tutor's responsibility is to the Houses and the Administrative Board's to the University some have suggested that the Burr Tutors should play advocate and plead his housemaster's case before the Board who would then act as judges...
After eight months of rough & tumble marriage, Actor Franchot Tone appeared in a Los Angeles court to plead for a divorce from Cinemactress Barbara Payton. Said Tone: "My wife's hobby is cooking. She wanted to prepare dinners herself." The trouble was, Tone explained, that he would invite people home for one of her dinners and the guests would sit around for hours waiting for her to arrive and start cooking. After a ten-minute hearing, the judge decided Tone had been cruelly treated, and gave him the divorce...
...students plead, gesticulate: "Relieve us, or we suffocate...
There is a good case for intervention: most of those under arrest had no idea of what they should plead, where to find legal counsel, or what the chances were of escaping sentence. Like sheep they followed the example of those lucky enough to have a lawyer. This worked last Friday, but it will take more than follow-the-leader tactics to wage a court trial...