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...play Ivy League football, we must broaden the personnel at Valpey's disposal. It might be nice to upset Stanford or Army or Cornell with a team playing strictly for fun, but it is not morally justifiable to ask such a team to expose itself to a steady stream of almost inevitable injuries. Such a casualty list as this year's is a direct result of playing a schedule composed exclusively of teams which are not only deeper in talent but also deeper in numbers. One group of eleven men playing against two groups of eleven men gets tired; when...
...Mortimer Adler was to learn a lot about the dean-and so was the rest of the world. Out of their acquaintance was to come a challenge aimed at everything that many U.S. colleges and universities had come to hold most estimable: spreading campuses, more & more courses, a steady stream of glossy new facts. The sharp question that Hutchins was to put to U.S. higher education (in the loudest of voices): What shall we do with the facts? Robert Hutchins got his chance to make the challenge just two years later. At 30 he became the "boy wonder" president...
...honor of the Bowlfest and the accompanying stream of displaced Harvard men, a special gridiron edition of the CRIMSON will be distributed free at key points in New Haven. After 9 a.m., copies will be distributed at the Yale Station, all Dining Halls, main entrances to the Old Campus, and the railroad station...
Babies & Baggage. Four days later, the travelers passed the last inhabited outpost on China's side of the grim Himalayas. As they crossed and recrossed treacherous river rapids, babies and baggage splashed repeatedly into the icy stream. At 15,800-foot-high Yngi Pass, the hearts of the horses began to pound dangerously. Vincoe Paxton helped slit the beasts' nostrils so that bleeding would keep their arteries from bursting. She swatted maggots from the festering wounds torn by saddle ropes on the animals' sides. Nausea, dizziness, frostbite and insomnia meanwhile began to affect the travelers themselves...
...city, unlisted on maps or by historians, so far as he knows, died "about the time of the Crusades" (11th to 13th Centuries A.D.). Next summer he intends to go back with a staff of archeologists, to give the city its correct ancient name and its place in the stream of history...