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...McKinley's assassination, but a year later he was elected to a seat (rarely to be occupied) in Congress, having run in a "safe" Tammany district. He celebrated by marrying Millicent Willson, from the chorus of The Girl From Paris. It was the snubs they suffered from stuffy upperclass Britons on their gala transatlantic honeymoon that helped turn him into an Anglophobe. (In 1930 it was France's turn. The French barred W.R. from their shores because a Hearstling had swiped the text of a secret Franco-British treaty. From then on, in the Hearst press, France...
...first Herbert Haines 150-pound crew trophy went to Samuel M. Allen '51 of Eliot House and Glendale, Ohio, on Tuesday night. The Haines Trophy was established by last year's 150 pound crew; it will be awarded annually to the upperclass lightweight oarsman who "best exemplifies the spirit of 150-pound rowing...
...junior members of the Government department voted than any extended tutorial for upperclass non-honors men should be neither compulsory, nor should it receive regular course credit. Although everyone agreed that some form of progress record should be kept on individual students, opinion was divided on exactly what form the grading should take...
President Lowell confidently expected that the new tutorial son would become the core of all upperclass studies, and that the wide assortment of courses would diminish to a few large basic introductory ones. Here he was wrong. Departments still encouraged their new men by allowing them to add new courses in their particular specialties...
Living at Wellesley ranges from comfortable in the freshman dorms to plush in the upperclass houses. Many freshmen live in the off-campus village, although some must be put up in houses. After their first year, the girls draw numbers, the low number holders getting their pick of houses...