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...Houses to be "mirrors" of the College. They were to contain, among other things, an academic cross-section of both students and faculty. Within recent years, however, the tutorial staffs of the Houses have become increasingly overbalanced in one field or in a group of closely related fields. The result is that certain Houses are becoming identified with special fields of concentration--Winthrop and Sciences, Eliot and History, Dunster and Economics--and the much sought-after academic cross-section is rapidly disappearing...
...disastrous. But ever since then, they have brushed aside every rival in their path and now seem headed for a story-book finish in E.I.L. baseball. Harvard caught them just at the start of their upswing in the first game between the two teams at Cambridge, and the result was a 12 to 3 Cornell victory...
...prejudiced against concerts of this kind because he is not asked to pay for them, one should be forced to admit that the choice of music is often far above average; and when the performance is on a similar plane, as can be expected in these two concerts, the result will give the greatest possible pleasure to the listener and--what is almost as important--to the performer...
...multitude of sins and open a fortress of loop-holes. The worth of the adoption of the suggestion is to be tested by the amount of leeway allowed. True it is that there are many situations where set rules cannot be applied,--where inefficiency or injustice would be the result. But care must be taken that what start out as exceptions to general principles now subscribed to do not become the rule...
...Henry Fuller, an old friend, Conan Doyle, Mark Twain, Jack London ("Why not Columbus?" asked one irritated ghost). Violet Parent and an assortment of dead Indians, padres and conquistadors, who told him where more crosses could be found. When they were not, the voice of Henry Fuller took charge. Result: 16 new crosses, found mostly under loose rock and bushes. Five museums to which Garland submitted his finds remained annoyingly skeptical...