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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Robert M. Hutchins, football has been de-emphasized, its teams play like scrubs (154 points have been scored against them in four games this season) and its alumni bow their heads on Saturday nights. "We are a big joke in the eyes of the American public," wailed the student Daily Maroon last week...
...Apocalypse d'Ezdras et le Style Oral Palestinien. Père Jousse's first enrolée was his good friend and collaborator, a tiny, wrinkled, white-haired spinster, by name Mile Gabrielle Desgrées du Lou. This lady, who must enroll as a student in order to get in the Sorbonne," does Père Jousse's gestures for him on the platform. While chanting, for example, Jesus' parable of the houses built on sand and on rock, Mile Desgrées du Lou rolls her eyes, waves her arms, twists and sways like.a...
...Social Student is spectacled, enthusiastic Professor Harold 0. Rugg, of Columbia University's Teachers College. Twenty years ago Professor Rugg (Dartmouth '08) decided that history and geography, as taught in the schools, were dust-dry, had little to do with the price of eggs. An engineer, he began to study what a citizen needed to know. Eventually he designed a series of textbooks intended to give useful answers to useful questions. He undid the old packages (i.e., history, geography), dumped all his information in one basket-social studies...
...they expected. The first 250 pages are dull as dishwater-a long-winded genealogy of Havelock Ellis's ancestors (healthy, middle-of-the-road sea captains, churchmen, businessmen, who "neither rise nor fall"), of his sheltered childhood, of his innocent young manhood as a schoolteacher in Australia, medical student in London, platonic lover of Olive Schreiner (The Story of an African Farm), who called him "my Soul's wifie." At that time, Ellis candidly confesses, he was 5' 10½" tall, weighed 150 Ibs., had a 23-in. mesocephalic head, an unusually high instep, a long great...
Having received provisional approval (to the extent of receiving letter awards) for a Minor sport status from the Student Council and the Undergraduate Athletic Council, the rifle club today concludes its five year fight for recognition as its case goes before the Committee...