Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grave challenge, for you must not allow the many foibles of college life to prevent you from concentrating on your academic work. You must not let the calibre of the undergraduate body be surpassed by that of the faculty. You must not fail to understand the implications of the point so superbly stated to you this summer by Dr. Baxter when he said, "Shocking as is the paradox of poverty amid abundance, of millions in want in a land whose productive resources are enormous and capable of enormous expansion, it is no more shocking than the neglect of opportunity...
...hundred years after the flood of British sea power drowned Holland as a first-class nation, hardworking, stubborn Dutchmen have at least succeeded in reclaiming a well-diked reputation as leading producers of tulips and cheese: But Dutch literature, which even at its high point, in the time of Erasmus and Spinoza, was always Holland's lowest point below sea level, remains almost wholly unreclaimed. Last week two Dutch novels stood out as new patches of dry land...
Until this point in The Buccaneers, 16-year-old Nan St. George has been its heroine. Thereafter she shares the limelight with her governess, a cool, prim, middle-aged Englishwoman named Laura Testvalley. Laura decides that, since the girls have no chance in Manhattan, they may succeed in London. Their London triumph is so complete it almost destroys them. Nan becomes the Duchess of Tintagel, discovers that she does not love her husband, falls in love with a young widower, calls her former governess for help. But in the heady sequence of brilliant marriages, Miss Testvalley has also recovered...
...first two weeks of camp were spent at the Post of Fort Ethan Allen, in order to prepare the men for the rigors of the life on the range where the "rabbits and the mosquitos play." The high point of this period of acclimatization was the annual R.O.T.C. "hop" --dance to you. That the men of Yale and Harvard are well versed in the "arts and sciences" of the social graces was well demonstrated by the demand for more dances...
...climax of the camp was the annual march to visit Fort Ticonderoga, an historical point of interest in this area. When the class of 1939, Harvard, gathers around its 25th re-union table, there will be men who will recall that memorable night in July when William Calfee '39 made a special study of the tactics of General Montcalm in the defense of the redoubts surrounding the Fort, and when Donald L. Daughters, '39, distinguished himself as official custodian of the few remaining mosquitos which insisted on spending a few early morning hours with...