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This is equally true of any other academic field, and there are certainly fields other than science in which America's anti-intellectual tendencies stand her in bad stead. A European quoted recently in Newsweek, said that he was genuinely surprised whenever he came across an American who could discuss modern art intelligently or indeed who could do anything more than tell him how wonderful things were in the United States...
...freshmen faired better in touch football play, with Grays Hall defeating Yale's top freshman dorm, North Middle, 24 to 18. Four Grays men scored once each and Charlie Lockwood's passing continued to stand them in good stead...
...taken." This policy does actually apply to routine restorative dentistry (fillings). We feel we can do more good by referring one student with a long program of restorative dentistry to an outside dentist whom we know and then taking three short restorative cases in the clinic in his stead, than we would if we were to take the long case in the clinic and then refer the three short cases outside. This plan cuts down the number of outside referrals: the number of men who must "trust to a strange dentist in a foreign city...
...Plan E government in Cambridge, feels that PR is very nearly a matter of life and death. Under PR, the normally outvoted wards around Harvard Square have a chance to elect representatives of their own. If PR were repealed and a city-wide plurality election put in its stead, it is doubtful that the so-called "better elements" of Cambridge could have a voice in city administration. The CCA has in the past been composed mainly of these better elements--to Harvard students, the intelligentsia of the community...
...script by ex-New York Daily Mirror Reporter Adrian Spies, never dull. The story concerned a psychopathic killer, who haunts a frightened cop, "a man without guile, walking perhaps to death when his heart was full of new life." Winchell's old vaudeville training stood him in good stead, especially when he had to talk about "the tabloid fury of the only city that never truly goes to sleep" or play amateur detective and whoosh across town in his radio car, sirens screaming, to beat the New York police force to the scene of violence. And then, the plain...