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...suitable examination basis would not suffice. To make early college consideration possible, early student application would also be necessary. Admissions officials point out that many applications come in early anyway; students could continue to decide when they would apply. Yale, for instance, handled a thousand voluntarily early applications last fall in an experimental admissions program. With early exam scores and applications, all colleges could begin their weeding out processes in September, and continue in the spring. They would thus alleviate their mammoth blue-form burden in April...
...could export more of this type of American." Said Berlingske Tidende, Denmark's leading daily, after a Curtice press conference: "It was really felt that here was a magnate who had succeeded in performing the miracle to preserve his soul in company with an annual turnover of 70 thousand million kroner...
Eventually Orozco got his paint-holding plaster and by 1934 Dartmouth got its far-famed murals. These freezes, which cover over three thousand square feet of wall space, depict the Aztec legend of Quetsalcoti, the Great White Father both modern counterpart...
...thousand people jammed London's Albert Hall, and most of them looked miserable. There were children on crutches and men and women with twisted limbs. Decrepit oldsters were there, and so were hysterics, neurotics and last-ditch incurables willing to try anything...
...instrument are almost over, however; the gargantuan hides are in soggy condition, and the entire frame needs overhauling. Estimates of the drum's value have varied. "When I was a freshman," says Novick, "it was worth $6000. The next year they sat $7000. Last year it went up another thousand. Actually, it's closer to $2000, but even then we have to find a cow with a hide big enough to provide drum heads that large." Frankly, the organization just doesn't have the money to replace the drum. And the band has not played for the Associated Harvard Clubs...