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With the excitement and confusion of registration over, new-comers have had a chance to demonstrate their prowess on Soldiers Field, and a few have drawn attention to themselves by virtue of their records. Two of these who have written all over them, but who protest strongly to the label, are javelin-throwing Dave Murray of V-12 and Eliot and Freshman slugger Walt Lowell House...
Mammoth banners wavered over German stadiums. The Reich's annual sport contests went off on schedule. Hitler Youths and Hitler Maidens displayed their prowess and affirmed their faith. The radio said that there would be no invasion now because Moscow did not want...
Overall impression: Germany still manages to put on a good show. Although people are worried about tremendous losses in Russia and growing hardships' at home, they seem to have confidence in Germany's fortifications and military prowess. They are constantly told that Germany and her allies have 200 million people, 18 million soldiers, that war production is increasing...
...silhouette of Widener's pillars, long a nostalgic symbol of Harvard's academic prowess, will be an unfamiliar sight to much of the University's student body, service and civilian, who have never known anything but a lightless Harvard...
Some of the more rebust members of the class (as evidenced by the recent fitness tests) are beginning to worry about their prowess. Rumor has it that the men who show by their fitness scores of a high degree of endurance and stamina will be seriously considered for C-B billets or destroyers where men have to be able to "take...