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...horseplay had gone out of fraternity life; and so had a lot of comradeship. It was the veterans who had made fraternities a different place. Most of them had too much on their minds-their grades, their families, and their futures-to be fraternity "brothers" in the prewar sense...
Then there is the matter of the courses which are omitted, for example, during 1947-48, but are to be given in 1948-49. In the present catalogue, the valuable prewar practise of listing such courses has been revived. But it is equally important for the student planning his program in long-range terms to know if a certain course is to be omitted in 1948-49, although it is being given in 1947-48. This information the catalogue does not offer. Its inclusion is not so important as expansion to provide for fuller descriptions. But the two together...
Such alterations reversed the trend of the prewar years, which had been adding to the protocol of competing steadily. According to Crimed Jerome D. Greene '96, whose reminiscences embrace the roaring nineteenth century, a candidate could make the paper in three weeks...
Died. Peter de Rochegune Munch, 77, prewar pacifist, Foreign Minister of Denmark from 1929 to 1940; in Copenhagen. He visualized a Scandinavian "oasis of peace," signed a non-aggression pact with Hitler in May 1939-ten months before the Nazi invasion of Denmark...
...said SEC and the Department of Commerce in a joint study, expects to spend $4.1 billion on new plants and equipment in the first quarter of this year. This is 30% more than was spent in the corresponding period last year, and 80% more than in 1929, the highest prewar year...