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Basic training remains rigorous. "For the first four months I thought I had died and gone to hell," says a Scandinavian recruit. "The legion was intent on breaking me down until I could neither think nor move until somebody ordered me to." Officers think nothing of ordering a legionnaire to run-not march-through 35 miles of mountain country, and then having the man practice parachute drops the next morning...
When students can satisfy the requirements by taking The Scandinavian Cinema or Biology of Cancer, one inevitably wonders whether the program still reflects any clear sense of intellectual priorities. The current proposal, with its more carefully delineated categories, does much to redefine the fundamental aims of a liberal education and provide a structure to insure that these goals will be reflected in each student's course of study...
...meet dominated by Scandinavian transplants, the men's and women's skiteams from Harvard plowed to tenth place finishes in the 47th Annual Middlebury College Carnival held last weekend in Middlebury, Vermont...
Much of Velva still clings to Sevareid -his wheatfield-flat monotone, his Scandinavian ponderousness, his Midwestern faith that folks can get along if they listen to each other, and especially his chapbook belief in America's innate strengths. "No other great power has the confidence and stability to expose and face its own blunders," he wrote last year in a new introduction to his 1946 autobiography, Not So Wild a Dream. "We are a turbulent society but a stable republic. The mind goes blank at the thought of a world without one such power...
...Several Scandinavian countries observe such strict sanitation codes that sidewalk Santas are required to wear netting over their full-face beards, and department-store Santas are not permitted to hold children on their laps, but instead give youngsters warm handshakes (through plastic gloves--a must!) and small bags of health food...