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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...permission to marry are required to produce a ream of documents attesting to the character, health, religious, economic and political integrity of the persons applying. Ninety-eight percent of the couples genuinely in love are given a flat "no" on the implied grounds that the Korean is a sort of subhuman type unfit for life...
Last year's Committee feared that criticism might take the Smoker off the Yard for all time if the event remained nothing more than a whopping good party, a sort of vulgarized Jubilee. This was one good reason why no Smoker was held for the seven years prior...
Wednesday night the hockey team trimmed BU in one of the roughest college games of the year. And tonight at West Point's Academy Stadium the Crimson will be in for much the same sort of evening when it takes on Army Harvard will probably win, mainly because BU best Army two weeks ago and because the Crimson is now playing its best hockey of the season. But the team will have to face the slow but big Cadets without the services of Jack Carman, big defenseman who lost three teeth when he was hanged...
...lectures in this course," started the professor when the group was quiet, "will not be concerned with facts. That sort of thing will be found in the reading. Rather, I will introduce as many interpretations and, ah, insights of my own as the time allows. The subjects of the lecture will be decided after consultation with...
...this age of Hollywood blood-and-thunder war movies, all of which preach some sort of a hackneyed message, there is nothing more refreshing than to see a brilliant war film like the twelve year-old "Grand Illusion." Starring Erich von Stroheim and Jean Gabin, this old-French epic concerns the fate of a group of French prisoners in Germany during the first World...