Word: student
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the aid of Langdon P. Marvin, Jr. '41, Student Council representative for Freshman affairs and himself an ex-Union Committee President, and of Kendrick N. Marshall '21, secretary of the Union and instructor in Government, the 1943 Union Committee will manage informal class dances, sponor talks, stage course reviews before examinations. It also appoints the committees which stage the Yardlings' two big blowouts; the Smoker, annual class stag party, and the Jubilee...
...chief class activities for Yardlings is the publication of the Redbook, pictorial record of the Freshman class. Other Freshman enterprises which center in the Union are the debating and photographic clubs. Most Freshman activities which are not self-supporting are financed by the Student Council...
...last week Student Elkins liked the looks of Merry Caroline, a cheap plater running in the second race at Chicago's Washington Park. He decided to couple Caroline with Joy Bet, the worst nag (and therefore probably the longest shot) listed for the first race. He wired his selection (and $2) and went about his chores...
...problem is not sufficiently abstruse to require the services of a logician. A mere student of semasiology will recognize the employment of the word accident in this case as being entirely dependent upon the motive and intent of the golfer. . . . The result of the manner in which he uses his clubs is one of perfection or imperfection, not chance...
...student at The Bronx Public School 44, he made the track team by learning to jump the gun without detection. After he won a shorthand championship with a broken finger by ingeniously sticking his pen through a potato, he became a demonstrator for the Gregg shorthand system. His specialty was taking notes with both hands from a phonograph chattering 350 words a minute. This inhuman proficiency took him to Washington, aged 18, as organizer of the stenographic force for Bernard Baruch's War Industries Board, where he had occasion to record the thoughts of such dignitaries...