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...Seventeen of the rioters were Tech graduate students from Baker House, and two were Harvard men who had been seeing dates home when they were arrested...
...statement "a system of schools where the future doctor, lawyer, professor, politician, banker, industrial executive, labor executive, and manual worker have gone together at age fifteen to seventeen is something that exists nowhere in the world outside of the United States," President Conant makes no attempt to explain why he picks ages fifteen to seventeen. If he believes that the public school should influence the developing minds of future citizens, it would seem that the pupils' earlier years, probably in grammar school, would be more conducive to the class understanding President Conant desires...
...Shapley were to be given one chance to show what he has done for the Observatory, he would point to the representatives of seventeen different nations that were on his staff at one time...
There will be seventeen double rooms on each of the upper three floors all equipped with built in closets, bureaus, single beds--no more bunks--plus some equipment new in Radcliffe rooms. Kitchenettes with separate ironing and drying rooms, will be attached to the smokers...
...Class of 1953 faired worse academically than its predecessors. Only 71 percent received Satisfactory as against 74.7 percent the year before, while five percent of '53 received Unsatisfactory compared to 3.7 percent last year. On Low Passes this January's grades were better--24 percent against 21.6 percent. Seventeen men--three without petition--were dropped during the term...