Word: springs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...board) of the University of Virginia. He anticipated Harry Truman's Point Four program by forming the Liberia Co. to help develop the natural resources of the Negro republic. He traveled, conducted foreign-policy seminars at his estate in Virginia, wrote a book on Yalta (see BOOKS). Last spring, Big Ed's doctor ordered him to slow down...
...recently conducted by Labor's Transport House had indicated that if the election were held now, Labor would get a majority of not more than 40 seats in the House of Commons. This margin is too thin to withstand severe crises, Laborites think. They believe that by next spring they will be either over the fence or crumpled up in front of it. Said one: "we're determined to have a damned good shot at getting out of this mess...
Whatever the excuses may be, the majority of students can find no causes for leaving out the 10 percent. As the Princeton pointed out following last spring's bicker, in a body of young men capable of gaining admission to Princeton "there is no such animal as a socially undesirable student." To solve the situation, the paper called for "more initiative from the men on Prospect Street," the same sort of initiative that got the whole system rolling seventy years...
...Deans know what they're doing. Princeton's classes emerge the most spirited alumni in the world, returning loudly each spring with firemen's uniforms and an occasional elephant--and new shekels for University coffers. Judge Harold R. Medina, a zealous reunion-booster, once appeared at an alumni festival in orange and black tights...
Meanwhile, to gain a better understanding of the College food problem in general, the entire Council will talk with vice-President Theodore Reynolds at lunch next week. They hope to ascertain what has been done since student investigations of the food situation began last Spring...