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From the point of view of veterans who have been gone for two or three years, the divisional and general exams pone a real mental hazard. Within each House there are an estimated 100 men who will take these tests lacking any tutorial preparation, and with brief notes and infrequent conferences as the only means of resurrecting what went on three or four years ago. Departments of the College have shown willingness to supply reading lists, a sample of the staff of one House shows an enthusiasm to go ahead with the plan. Certainly the Masters could do no better...
...biggest discovery, for which he received a medal in 1939 from the American College of Physicians: nicotinic acid (part of B-2 vitamin) cures pellagra, a common affliction among poor Southerners who live on fatback and corn pone...
Down Once. Black George, founder of the line, left his swineherd's hut to become the scourge of Serbia's Turkish masters. He was a choleric, heroic breeder of pigs and rebellion. He loved corn pone, plum brandy and killing (with his own hands he slew 125 men who provoked his anger; he stabbed his stepfather, hanged his brother...
Naps & Breaks. The 5:50 a.m. reveille always makes the aching footballers gripe at their hard fate - mostly in corn-pone drawls (there are six Southerners on the first eleven). And from reveille on, they are never allowed to forget that football runs a poor second to the serious business of being hammered into officers and gentlemen...
...Said the youth: "But, sir, I have no gun. In England we are not allowed to carry them." Despite this unfamiliarity with the American language, some of the boys at Southern camps wind up with thick Southern accents, go hog-wild over orange juice, ice cream, corn pone...