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...sign for future undergraduates. Those in the second class will be given tutorial work from which they can profit, and an extra course thrown in, while the college will no longer have to supply expensive individual instruction to those who cannot use it to the full. Thus, though vigilant read-justments and changes will inevitably have to be made from time to time, the current report of the Dean marks a turning point in the career of the tutorial system, a corner around which there should be genuine good times to come...
...Massachusetts, disappointed at not being made chairman of the Committee on Immigration, Mr. Norris led a group of about twenty-five insurgent Republicans, who, with the Democrats, constituted a major- ity in the House. . . ." ED. Achmet's Women Sirs: In my Jan. n copy of TIME I read your account of Achmet Zogu's efforts to marry into European nobility, and thought that perhaps you would be interested in knowing why the Countess Johanna Von Mikes will not marry him. Outside Albania the situation is not understood, owing to lack of knowledge regarding Albanian marriage laws and customs...
...Lords and Commons last week, after the long British Christmas-New Year recess, opened politically the new Georgian era of George VI. It was not an occasion which required His Majesty to open Parliament in state with a Speech from the Throne, the last such required speech having been read loud and clear by Edward VIII (TIME, Nov. 9). Today George VI is making rapid further progress with doctors and vocalists to overcome his defective speech (TIME, Dec. 21), and the Duke of Kent was recently pressed into service to read an overseas royal radio broadcast to New Zealand. Omens...
From questionnaires sent out to his classmates, Author Tunis learned that most of Harvard 1911 read no books, boast no intellectual diversions, live generally mediocre lives. By a "personal, house-to-house canvass" Classmate Benchley collected a grim set of 1912 confessions: "I have three children, all of whom look like me. "I have no children, all of them Chinese. (It is only fair to state that this came from a Chinese classmate.) "I have two daughters, one of whom thinks I went to Colgate and the other of whom goes around with a Princeton man. "The only date...
...took three years of German in college, and two years later they changed the name of sauerkraut to 'Liberty Cabbage' ! "I haven't read any books. . . . "No spik Engliss." Harvardman Tunis concluded that the Class of 1911 comprised a "bunch of contented cows" who had accomplished almost nothing. "Of course, "retorted Harvardman Benchley in The Twelve Twenty-Five Express, "any member of 1912 could have predicted this ... as early as 1909." Cracked he: "If I were a calamity-howler, I could show that 72% haven't got $3,-000,000 to their name...