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...students are allowed to wander in the college wilderness without the guidance that would help them immeasurably when once they enter the professional division. Although rigorous pre-legal requirements should not be laid down, lest they limit too strictly the freedom of choice in college, the school should not shirk the responsibility of pointing out the undergraduate courses that form a valuable introduction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "BRAMBLEBUSH" | 11/27/1936 | See Source »

...combination. . . . More or less in bed owing to my hind legs, which are in a chronic state of being asleep up to the knees and threaten to leave me in the lurch. ... I am growing very tottery and had considerable difficulty in dressing this a. m. Even so, I shirk my job and ignominiously retire to blankets and a cheap novel at our forlorn and smelly billet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Polyneuritis Ambulatoria | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

Gloomed President William Green: "It indicates that industry is making no determined effort to put the unemployed to work and is quite willing to shirk all responsibility for them. Under such conditions even the continuing production gains we hope for this spring will do little to restore the millions of jobs needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Jobless January | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

...preliminary, the Crimson Freshmen took an average Dean Academy five, 38-31. HARVARD CORNELL McGowan, Lavietes, Mason, r.g. l.g., Doering, Rich, McDonald Lowman, Kuhn, Shirk, l.f. r.g., Doering, Dauner, McDonald Gray, Lee, c. c., Wilson, Rich Struck, Dampeer, Snell, r.g. l.f., Dykes, Simon Wills, White, Litman, l.g. r.f., Downer, Burns, Hughes

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Minor and Freshman Weekend Sports | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

...starting lineup, Coach Wes Fesler will have George Lowman and Louis McGowan in the forward berths, Bill Gray at center, and Vernon Struck and Jack Dampeer at the guard posts. Besides these five, Captain Leavy White, Ray Lavietes, Art Snell, Jake Kuhn, and either Jack Mason or Bill Shirk will make the trip...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY QUINTET TO MEET COLUMBIA IN CLASH TONIGHT | 2/19/1936 | See Source »

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