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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last Thursday evening, Council Chairmen presented their final reports summarizing their year's work. Some were able to point to a year of worthwhile accomplishments, but others could only outline vague and useless dabbling. In one case, when called upon to report, a Chairman said he didn't have anything...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Committees | 5/24/1949 | See Source »

Although committee reports do not tell the whole story about a man's interest in his work as a Council member, they do point up the peculiar opportunity which an elected Council member has for doing something useful. Last year, for example, under the leadership of David C. Poskanzer '50, the Council's Education Committee turned out a report which required keen interest and active leadership. By comparison, this year's Education Committee has done little. Its outstanding project is the publication at this late date of the results of polls on General Education courses and a report on section...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Committees | 5/24/1949 | See Source »

Touch football and volleyball are the only sports Kirkland has won, but it has never finished worse than fourth in any sport. The Deacon record shows a tie for first in football and seconds in basketball (combined A and B League point totals), fencing, and wrestling...

Author: By E. JOUR Otameal, | Title: Kirkland Clinches Straus Trophy by Taking Lead in Track | 5/24/1949 | See Source »

...like to think of banking," said Bank President Tony Burton in John P. Marquand's Point of No Return, "as . . . the most basically human business that there is in the world." Last week, Tony Burton got some backhanded support for his assertion from the FBI's Inspector Lee R. Pennington, who investigates bank frauds. Addressing a conference of the National Association of Mutual Savings Banks in Washington, Pennington said that most of last year's frauds (total lost: $3,000,000) were traceable to some fairly common human failings: gambling, drink, women. High living, big debts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Wine, Women & Wrong | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...alert defense held the Eli squad to one point in the second half of the game at Soldiers Field, enabling high scorers Ned Yost, Bob Baldwinfi and Dunc McCallum to close the score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '52 Lacrosse Loses | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

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