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...expected and demanded that a newspaper calling itself honest should stand by in silence, lest some of its friends suffer loss by not sharing in extravagant and wasteful spending of public money by genial politicians? ... If the editor of the News & Courier is an obstacle to Charleston, a thorn in its flesh, he ... is prepared at a moment's notice to remove himself. He is not prepared to move from his opinion...
Erickson and Stevens, co-captains, are both Seniors. Cobb is a Junior, and Ingley and Seelbach are Sophomores and members of last year's Puppy five. The Elis also have a string of dependable substitutes in Ben Sullivan, Joe Zilly, and Bill Thorn, lettermen from last year, and Sophomores Al Barthelemy, Goody Rhett, and Bill Bell...
...been found to cause trouble. Rationally, it is unacceptable. War destroys both men and society. Finally, Americans have a powerful intuitive repulsion to killing. Using Professor Sorokin's integral method of approach it seems clear that people should make a conscious effort to eliminate war, to extract the thorn in the flesh of civilization. However, from its narrow empirical point of view, America acts on its experience that war may be bad for combatants but is eminently profitable for non-combatants, so it exploits war for what it's worth. Americans have deserted the reality of intuition, absolute values, rationalism...
...Latest thorn in the side of Radcliffe budgetary authorities is H. Stuart Kirby '43, who climbed out on a limb two weeks ago as a protest against being turned down by Libby Esler, Radcliffe '43 when he asked her for a date. To date clippings about the incident garnered from all over the country have cost Radcliffe nearly five dollars...
Finn Ferner, the young Norwegian who unexpectedly won the best time in the informal slalom held by the Harvard club on Thorn Mountain in Jackson last Sunday, is Harvard's new find. Two weeks ago, he won several events at Mont Tremblant in Canada. Outstanding in slalom and cross country racing, he is expected to garner many points for the Crimson team in its third major meet of the year...