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This year several Foundation students were accepted into fraternities, but a far smaller ratio than the percentage accepted from the sophomore class as a whole. In athletics, they have been unable to keep up with their more mature classmates in strenuous competitive sports, while their contributions to publications has been generally negligible. Said the News in a second editorial. "Social life, extra-curricular activities, and athletics are nearly as essential to a full Yale education as academic work, yet the majority of the Ford Scholars will be missing out on these three counts...
...graduate into a town. Though Buttrio Square is the center-of-life in an Italian community, it looks like the market place of a dozen Ruritanian capitals. Up goes the curtain, and out pop youths and maidens committing the usual merry-month-of-Mayhem. Thereafter, there is much strenuous dancing, deplorable banter, and songs with such titles as Let's Make It Forever and You're Mine, All Mine...
Last week, at the New York Diabetic Association's Camp NYDA, 80 diabetic youngsters got a stirring show of what they can do with themselves. Two fellow diabetics, U.S. Davis Cup Captain William Talbert (33) and ninth-ranking Amateur "Ham" Richardson (19), turned up to play a strenuous exhibition tennis match on the camp's one ramshackle court. Winner: Talbert...
...Holy Deadlock, he charged full tilt into Britain's archaic divorce laws; after he got into Parliament, he pushed through the Matrimonial Causes Act in 1937, the first piece of divorce-reform legislation in 81 years. In the fight over that bill, some of Herbert's most strenuous opposition came from a conservative faction in the Church of England. Last week they were at it again, this time on the issue of Anthony Eden's remarriage...
...from the governorship of Veracruz to the Ministry of the Interior and to the presidential palace-his right-hand man moved right behind him. Will Ruiz Cortines be strong enough to go his own honest way now? His friends think so. He will continue Mexico's program of strenuous industrial expansion, they say, but with more orderly planning, "more austerity, more social justice, a more equitable distribution of wealth...