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...moment of historic inspiration, David Owen once organized a society called "The Sons of the Whiskey Rebellion" to invigorate a staid, scholarly convention. Though accomplishing it purpose, the society was short-lived; it lasted only three days and three nights. But, as most of his students will testify, Owen's capacity for enlivening history has survived. A descendant of two Baptist ministers and one teacher, Owen lectures in a style reminiscent of both the preacher and the scholar. He adds, characteristically, a strong dose of humor, often sardonic, to keep the state of British history in lively repair...
...women) have entered the banking and finance field, obviously because of the depression and the war. Thus, banks themselves predict a great influx of younger administrators because of the scarcity of competition for the lucrative jobs day by day being vacated by the retirement of older men. And banks, staid and traditional as they may appear to be, are taking a progressive and competitive concern in their hiring programs. What, then, do these companies offer...
...Staid Philadelphia was the scene of an unusually gay reunion last week, and the headquarters for it was an unlikely spot: the Charles P. Bailey Thoracic Clinic. But few celebrators anywhere could have had better cause to rejoice than the 306 graduates of heart surgery who traveled (at their own expense) from as far away as Canada and California, Puerto Rico and Venezuela to let the Bailey team of eight doctors check on their progress. All had been heart cripples a few years ago; now, with a few exceptions, they were well and proud to show...
...Groton was never like this," remarked an astounded freshman as a Bacchian imitator turned the usually staid Humanities 2 lecture of Professor John Finley '25, into a temporary turmoil...
...Massachusetts legislature may soon write the final chapter in the strange story of a controversy which rocked the staid colony of Massachusetts Bay to its Puritan foundations more than 250 years...