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Taylor also re-emphasized his position against closing any House dining halls on weekends. He cited the influx of family, friends, and dates for football games which make weekend meals more crowded than usual. Further, students coming from closed Houses would create "an awful jam" in the open dining halls, he said...
...requirement of the oath in the NDEA seems to us to present completely different problems. Allegiance is a necessary accompaniment of citizenship. The usual form for the expression of such allegiance is by oath. The oath in the NDEA is such an oath in its traditional form. To require such an oath is the right of the government. We believe, however, that it is useless and invidious to require it on this occasion, useless because disloyalty is not eliminated by formalities, and invidious since it selects the beneficiaries of government assistance in one area and not in others. We therefore...
...meeting will replace the usual lecture in Government 1, a course that Lowell established and in which he taught for eight years...
Long-Range Penetration. Wingate's mental recovery was swift. He told his first visitors that his suicide had failed because his campaign had not been as carefully prepared as usual: he should have relaxed first with a hot bath so that his neck muscles would not have become tense, and turned the blade. Influence and nerve got him back into action. Within seven months he was sent to India, where a demoralized British army was still reeling from the loss of Burma. Wearing his accustomed sun helmet and a biblical beard, Wingate developed his theory of "long-range penetration...
...face of it, this is a hospital novel that makes the most of medical melodrama. But it is as far removed from the usual scalpel-and-suture bestseller as a book on home remedies is from Gray's Anatomy, and it won the choicest collection of British reviews achieved by any book in 1958. Said the Times Literary Supplement: "The book exercises a complete fascination." Said the Irish Times: "Quite possibly a masterpiece." Despite the sometimes awesome gulf that separates British and U.S. tastes, U.S. readers are likely to find themselves agreeing with these judgments of The Rack...