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Meyer prepared at Andover and is a member of the Union Committee. He will select the remaining ushers and submit the list to the Union Committee...
...might have been preserved. Author Wolff absolves plain Europeans of all nationalities (except the Serbs) from a desire for war, says: "The bringers of evil were folly, arrogance, stupidity, and the gambler's mania. The fates were not Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos, daughters of Zeus. They were a select company whose names stood at the foot of government decrees, in the official calendars, in the diplomatic sections of the Almanack de Gotha, in the Army Lists, the world's Press lists, the general directories, the telephone directories, and the membership lists of the Académic, the Shakespeare...
...Advisers would be able to hack the trail through the wilderness of the early months in college. More important and concrete than this friendly guidance, the duty of the Adviser was to aid in the choice of courses during the first year, and finally to help the Freshmen select his field of concentration. The new freedom of the Conant administration, the changes in both language and distribution requirements, with the consequent deflation of prescribed courses, has made the first of these duties more vital than ever before...
...recall his leaving the Chaucer class that way. The former group met in a good sized lecture hall at the top of a narrow flight of stairs so that a prompt exit was needed to avoid jostling and a delayed departure. The latter group, smaller and more select, being largely composed of graduate students, met in an ordinary classroom and was treated with somewhat less contempt...
Critics picked Long Island University, with Notre Dame, University of Washington, University of Kansas, University of Arkansas, University of Kentucky, which last week were also finishing successful seasons, as one of the favorites in the forthcoming tournament to select the team to represent the U. S. in next summer's Olympic Games...