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...about, and participates with less enthusiasm in, inter-House activities than any of the other six units. Internally, it has no social solidarity. Of all the House members, Dunster men have given up their rights of group privacy to the least extent. In many ways Dunster is the last stronghold of the conservatism and indifference that typified the old Harvard...
...first year here, Fesler was up against a new job, and a not-too-superb bunch of players; to boot, it was his first responsible coaching job. The year's record was unmistakably poor, but it is not easy to bring a new style of play into this stronghold of toryism and reaction, nor is it easy to inspire a team from which the spark has been extinguished by years of consecutive defeat. Then too, factional prejudice arose on the squad, and the role of peace-maker, arbiter, and policeman was added to Wes' many troubles...
...dentistry and pharmacy at Louisiana State. With other bills Boss Long grabbed power to: 1) appoint sheriffs' deputies; 2) cripple New Orleans finances by banning municipal liquor taxes; 3) lay a sweeping tax on manufacturers; 4) take over the government of East Baton Rouge Parish, anti-Long stronghold containing the State capital, as a first step in making it his own "little District of Columbia...
...months ago, Mrs. Stam had her first child, a girl, by a caesarean operation, last September. Outposters of the interdenomi national China Inland Mission, they taught the way of the Lord in Tsingteh in Southern Anhwei Province, 200 miles from Nanking, which is Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's stronghold of law & order...
Deploring the lack of debate on questions of fundamental policy he says, "It is well-nigh farcical when members of an administration can, month after month, use phrases so old, tawdry, so vague, ill-considered, and meaningless, that I doubt whether a village meeting in a Tory stronghold in England would tolerate such political fustian." After dwelling on the necessity of debate, Mr. Neilson discusses problems such as restoring confidence, planning for others, the economic fog, the protection of the foolish, and the fourteenth amendment...