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...your March 28 issue, on p. 29. you refer to a horse named Pelorus Jack. There is an interesting story behind this name, the details of which most any Australian can give you. The writer's memory of the story, related to him by an Australian pilot, is too uncertain to be quoted. Briefly, the story concerns a certain dolphin or jackfish, the existence of which is sworn to by many ship captains, which, meeting and swimming a few feet ahead of the ships served as a guide through the treacherous Pelorus straights on the inner route along...
Hereafter the News will refer to the residential system to be inaugurated in 1933 as the "College Plan." In using the term "House Plan", as Professor Seymour points out, "we are merely following in the step of Harvard and are losing the chance of preserving the distinctiveness of our own scheme." Furthermore, while the units at Harvard are actually called Houses, at Yale they will be known as Colleges...
Your statement that time in Japan is reckoned from the date of enthronement of Jimmu Tenno is correct, in that classical writings and historians refer to that date. But in their everyday life, the Japanese reckon time from the date of the enthronement of the Emperor who is on the throne at the time. Thus the World War began in the Third Year of Taisho (the present Emperor's father: 1912-26), and this letter would be dated 7-2-19, as being written in the seventh year of Showa (Righteousness, the title chosen by Emperor Hirohito for his reign...
...entry of Kirkland House is the coat-of-arms of the Kirkland family. The conspicuous feature of it are the three large stars, which remind the beholder of the more plebian but more renowned ensignia of another illustrious family. Some irreverend spirits have even gone so far as to refer to "Hennes essey House". This jaunty tale symbolizes the democratic spirit of Kirkland, which has less of the boarding school and social elements represented than the other Houses. It has been considered by many as a social desert and a stigma has been attached to its name. This attitude will...
...little continuity nor is there any correlation between them and section work. The material treated in the various sections, moreover, differs so widely that the course is good, bad, or indifferent largely as the instructors make it. Though the section men set the examinations, the questions in them often refer to material treated carefully in one section, but slighted in another. The result, naturally, is a chaos confusing to even the most conscientious Freshman...