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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...move, passed at the monthly meeting of the Faculty on the recommendation of the Committee on Educational policy, eliminated the wartime offerings of General Examinations in the summer term. Through the academic years 1918-49 and 1949-50 the exams will be given in January and May, while starting three years hence the tests will be offered only...
Freshman smokers will fill Sanders Theatre again with free cigarettes, liquor, and sparkling names of stage and screen early next term for the first time snce the spring...
Notification of scholarship grants are in the mail today, informing 18 undergraduates of a total of $690 distributed among them to meet their term bills. "Scholarships do not exceed $50 and are designed specifically to keep needy students in College," the Council said...
Tall, talkative Albert Hibbs, a graduate student in mathematics at Chicago, had devised the system on a bet with Medical Student Roy Walford. They took a term off from the university to try it out. It was a "progressive parlay" based on mathematical probability, some intricate slide-rule calculations, and two assumptions: that any roulette wheel follows a pattern of its own, and that good or bad luck runs in streams. The key to the Hibbs-Walford approach: increase bets in streams of good luck, never increase or reduce them in streams of bad luck...
Appealing throughout the University for help in providing "a cheerful vacation" for foreign students, the International Activities Committee of the Students Council last night swung into action for the first time this term...