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...picture of innocent first year men grinding away over their books, never realizing how little work is necessary to secure a degree. While this is accurate for some, there are many whose experience was different and therefore to whom this section will mean nothing. The House articles are uniformly tub-thumping as are many of the others, an attitude by no means uniform in "317's" readers. Nonetheless, this sort of trouble is, I think, inevitable, and the Yearbook has avoided its more objectionable forms...
Aircraft companies, swollen with defense contracts, are now hiring any competent college graduate with engineering or scientific training. But pessimists in the field are grimly pointing to the days following World War II when aeronautical engineers were forced to learn the details of wash tub fabrication in order to keep their jobs in a rapidly shrinking industry...
...manly relish of life." His last letter home bears witness: "I must have from Fordhook likewise four hams, a very fine hog fatted as soon as may be and being cut into flitches sent me, likewise a young hog made into pork and salted and pickled in a tub. A vast large Cheshire cheese, and one of Stilton, it to be had good and mild . . . God bless you and yours...
...probles of finance and faculty. Gone were the days when President Eliot could fill out the University's budget by hand. In 1945 Conant decided to appoint Buck "Provost of the University and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences." Since Conant likens each University department to a tub--"every tub will stand on its own bottom"--Buck has almost complete autonomy in an extensive domain that includes the Collage, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. libraries, and research institutions. President Conant act as an appeal board and final judge of overall policy...
This can be done without refurbishing the plumbing or dangling yourself over the side of a tub. Simply sit with your fanny and feet in hot water. Stand occasionally and rub what seems appropriate with a bathcloth filled with ice cubes, if you want to be real heroic and make it a "hot and cold fanny fling...