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...Student Council's brilliant 1939 Report on Education went to the root of the matter, and suggested drastic remedies. Teachers and administrators may quail at the thought of organizing and staffing five broad "introductory area courses" such as the Council has suggested. And it may run against the grain to make such courses compulsory for all. But no one can ignore the glaring fissure in Harvard's educational structure; such measures as the Board of Freshman Advisers has taken may bridge the gap temporarily, but they will never close...
...Henry Nesbitt listed stacks of early gifts; Housekeeper Mrs. Nesbitt thumbed over the State linen, bargained with tradesmen, checked the storeroom's loaded shelves of cans and bottled goods. The cook pirouetted with dignity around the 24-foot electric stove, carefully sniffed the game rack, where hung pheasants, quail, ducks, grouse, and woodcocks waiting till they were high enough for a President's taste...
...farmers took down their cherished fowling-pieces, bankers assembled their shiny shotguns and the army of U. S. hunters took to the woods, the marshes and the prairies for their fall shooting. From Cape Cod to the Sierras, most of them were after rabbits. Many had their minds on quail, pheasant, grouse, squirrel, deer. But the most excited U. S. gunners last week were the 1,000,000 duck shooters looking forward to their rendezvous with canvasbacks, mallards, black ducks, pintails...
...dried is the election of A. B. A. presidents. Anything but cut-&-dried is its newest one, Robert March Hanes, 49, president of Winston-Salem, N. C.'s Wachovia Bank & Trust Co. (largest bank between Washington and Atlanta; deposits: $91,000,000). Fond of quail shooting, lively parties, buzzing about, he has sat in both General Assembly and Senate of his State Legislature. For years he rode a motorcycle to the bank every day. Once it got away from him, ripped through his wife's pet flower bed. Evaded he: "Mildred, some damn fool has torn up your...
From Geneva the Zionists scattered to their home countries like quail flushing before a hawk. Their noisy objections to Britain's plans for establishing an Arab State in Palestine with the Jews as a minority were silenced by the spectre of other powers, less friendly to Jews, controlling Palestine. And in Britain's mind, the fate of Jews there dwindled to insignificance beside the fate of the Suez Canal, for which Palestine is a northern rampart, and of the oil pipeline from Iraq which reaches tidewater at Haifa. Realizing this, Zionist President Chaim Weizmann, a brilliant chemist...