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...hardly necessary to say that I am consumed with envy for all college students, particularly Harvard Men. From the Siberia of these United States, camp Polk, Louisiana, I salute You All. Surrounded by playful armadilloes, malevolent coral snakes, sand, rain, mud and Okies, I languish, forgotten and ignored. Quite seriously, though, the New Army is no better than any other previous one. My considered advice to everyone who has not come under the arm-garters of our communal Uncle Sam is to raise hell until the axe falls. It is not a funny axe, nor is it a funny Army...
William L. Polk '51 countered with a suggestion that politicking is a "healthy" phenomenon which enables the voters--in this case the incoming council--to get to know the candidates better. "Besides," he continued, "some of the officers who are elected may be new, not returning, councilmen and the recently elected members should have at least a week to become acquainted with each other...
William R. Polk '51, chairman of the foreign affairs committee of the Student Council, last night told the council his committee's plans to gather information on students throughout the United States...
This information will be circulated to foreign students in an effort to show them how American college groups have solved such problems as housing and self-help. "At present," Polk said, "the only people making an appeal for students' favor in the world are the Russians...
Henry Clay Alexander, 48, the new president, was born in Murfreesboro, Tenn., and went from Vanderbilt University ('23) and Yale Law School to corporation practice with Morgan Lawyers Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner & Reed. He was a Morgan partner by the time he was 36. For the past 22 months, as executive vice president, he has been in line to move up. As he did, President George Whitney became chairman, replacing longtime Morgan Partner Russell C. Leffingwell, who, at 72, stepped down to vice chairman...