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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Michigan, four-term Congressman Bartel J. Jonkman (pronounced Yonkman) was defeated in the week's biggest upset. A bitter-end G.O.P. isolationist who liked to refer to ERP as "Burp," Jonkman had always received most of the Dutch vote in the fifth district's "Little Netherlands." This year he did not bother to do much campaigning. His opponent, Gerald R. Ford Jr., 35, did. A Grand Rapids lawyer and onetime University of Michigan football star, Ford had hundreds of volunteers pushing doorbells for him, time & again dared Jonkman to debate his foreign-policy stand. Jonkman refused. Back-slapping...
Today's registration, coupled with that of 1,325 freshmen last Thursday, brings the approximate figure to 5,530--just 65 short of last year's record 5,595 and 400 more than was predicted for this term...
Last spring, Provost Buck, in announcing a rise in tuition, said that College enrollment would dip to 5100 this fall and 4700 in the spring term. With Selective Service in the offing, a large Class of 1952 was admitted. But when immediate drafting did not occur, the College was faced with a freshman class--and a total enrollment-far larger than estimated...
First of all, the entire Freshman backfield is gone. Carl Bottenfield, injured in the Dartmouth game last season, has quit football on the advice of his Tulsa physician; fullback John West and halfback John White are scholastically ineligible to play this term; and Jim Lowell has decided to devote full attention to his studies...
...Stade pointed out that the increased student expenses this year would permit little expansion of the scholarship program. A few man, however, have already been notified of new aids for this term...