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...sooner heard the last words of the announcement than they began grumbling ominously. Their mild-mannered Rector Norbert Goormaghtigh was going to resign, and it was all because the Minister of Education in Brussels had appointed a local doctor named Joseph Van de Velde to the vacant chair of clinical surgery. The rector did not want him, nor did his. students. "Van de Velde can't even speak Flemish," was the students' cry. "This is Walloon interference again...
There were two vacant chairs between Justice Tom Clark and his nearest neighbor when the Supreme Court convened for the first time this term last October. One was that of Justice Douglas, injured in an accident a few days before; the other was hung with black, in memory of Wiley Rutledge, who died just before this session...
...come to the presidency over an unlikely route. He was really an authority on poultry. But in the '30s, as secretary of Michigan's State Board of Agriculture, the governing body of the college, he had been full of big ideas for M.S.C. When the presidency fell vacant, he was the only man the board considered...
...vacant suites which will be turned over to members of '53 cover the entire price range, and include doubles, triples and larger suites. Furthermore, there are several pairs of adjoining suites which will await sophomores moving down in large numbers who relish the idea of open fire-doors and communal living...
...really is. From the present crop of 50 candidates the squad of approximately 25 men must be picked. When we first went down to the cage, we figured that this would merely mean filling the sports left vacant through graduation...