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...take eight courses in the field, entering Freshmen need but six, although eight is, of course, highly recommended. Also, a reading knowledge of either French and German, rather than both, as was previously stipulated, will admit a student into one of the cross section fields: the Renaissance, the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, or Nineteenth century. Ancient and Modern Authors exams may be tied in more with the tutorial than heretofore, but this decision still rests with the department...
...year for Bolles the Jayvees and Freshmen both lost, but since that time, for four straight years, the Crimson has won each of the four events, Combination, Freshman, Junior Varsity, and Varsity. When Captain Sherm Gray's undefeated eight swept under the railroad bridge last year it was the seventeenth Crimson shell in a row to leave a Yale crew astern...
Another departure from custom which would set John and his seventeenth century friends to revolving in their coffins is the reference to college as "school." Harvard's educational standards may have slipped in the past few years, but there is as yet no justification for confusing the undergraduate department of the University with an elementary institution. Let us remember that it is college which is opening this week, not school, and let us head for classes Wednesday with our voices raised, just slightly, in the traditional Harvard cry, "For God, for country, and for the unsplit infinitive...
Henry J. Cadbury, for a study of Quakerism in the West Indies in the seventeenth century...
Houghton, who graduated from Yale, and took his Ph.D. here, is an authority on seventeenth century English Literature, and his departure will leave that branch of the English Department extremely shorthanded. Popular with his tutees, Houghton is the author of a book on Walter Fuller, an eighteenth century writer...