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PORTLAND OREGONIAN: The strange, brilliant, ruthless man who is Oregon's senior Senator, Wayne Lyman Morse, reached the full stature of a demagogue in his campaign to prevent Clare Boothe Luce from serving as Ambassador of the United States to Brazil. In subverting the will of the President and 79 colleagues in the Senate who voted to confirm the nomination, Senator Morse won what may seem to him a victory over his chosen enemy, President Eisenhower. But many of his constituents are ashamed...
...institution of the Courtney Courtney Peabody prize for extraordinary achievement by an undergraduate was announced last night. The winner will be determined at a closed meeting of the Winthrop Senior Common Room early next week. Peabody's family decided that a fifty dollar prize for books, no single volume of which may cost over ten cents, would the most fitting memorial for Courtney Courtney, who graduated at the very bottom of a class of 863 back in 1935. Courtney met his tragic end last May, when he failed to keep his mouth closed during a tropical thunderstorm...
Cornell has a good number one in sophomore Don Rubell, as does Columbia in senior Lloyd Moglen, but Crimson captain Ned Weld should handle them if he is even nearly as efficient as he was Wednesday against Dartmouth's Dick Hoehn. Below the top man, neither the Lions nor the Big Red is very deep, and the varsity is a heavy favorite in both matches...
...lack of concentration, of independent study, is reflected in the fact that of 70 senior English majors, only three are writing theses. This statistic does not necessarily indicate preference. At Wellesley students do not apply to write theses; they are notified of their eligibility, largely based on course grades, by a committee of the College...
This same lack of friction carries over into Wellesley's intramural social life--the upperclass societies. To join, a girl must go to tea at each one; but any junior or senior who wants it is guaranteed acceptance, and the hierarchy, if any, is slight (Tau Zeta Epsilon--"Tizzy"--seems to be ranked a notch above the rest). Far from being an important part of the college's life, either intellectual or social (they were originally formed with specific purposes in mind, for example the Agora as a political science organization), they have become merely a pleasant place to take...