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Lining up next to him in the tackle slot is Mort Singer, on the other side at center, Bill Sharpe, and at end appears Hugh McCaffery. The only thing of note about these men to a non-Kirkland rooter is that they all played on the pre-war house squad. And they all carry around 190 units of avoirdupois...
...starter, we had the names & addresses of our 418 pre-war French subscribers. Our Paris office augmented this list with candidates chosen from pages torn out of directories, telephone books, Who's Who (prewar edition), from lists of Government officials, doctors, lawyers, university professors and other professionals, businessmen (especially those engaged in foreign trade), teachers of English, etc. To decipher and cull these lists, remove duplications, get the correct addresses and salutations, we hired five French girls who knew their France...
...assigned reading material is the fact that a large number of the books used by the Government and History departments are published in England. During the war these text books went out of print and their plates went the ways of all metals in a war geared economy. Now with the great influx of students the library is faced with an inadequate supply of irreplaceable books and cannot hope to maintain the pre-war level of one book to every ten students. The result of this shortage is that in the large lecture courses the ratio is approaching...
...torchbearing procession, about three times as large as any of last fall's variety, almost looked like a pre-war affair when it finally arrived at the steps of the Indoor Athletic Building to hear the speeches and run through five new fight cheers which five of the band's trumpeters have been practicing all week. The veteran cheerers, the interested spectators, and the confused freshmen, all were there to give the big Crimson squad a rousing send...
...almost like pre-war--almost, that is, except for the crowd, which left great bare places in the Stadium that were more reminiscent of "informal" games than of 1941 or '42. The band was there, and the cheerleaders, and even Coach Harlow sitting grim as over in back of his eager players, neat but not gaudy in his blue worsted and Varsity Club...