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First baseman Hank Durham is the largest offensive threat of the Indians. The big infielder has displayed tremendous power on various occasions, shining on a team which includes at least three other men who are dangerous at the plate. Al Quirk will probably be ready for the game, and will be Coach Eddie Jeremiah's choice for starting pitcher...
...mildly comic figure in London drawing rooms, but it is impossible to imagine such an individual writing The Beast in the Jungle or The Altar of the Dead. Author Nowell-Smith has traced through their mutations several of the famous inane or incredibly affected remarks attributed to James, by various writers, pointing to an unmistakable conclusion: they were apocryphal. James was a character. Anecdotes were attributed to him, the way jokes about monosyllabic New Englanders were attributed to Calvin Coolidge...
Until the Republican convention in June, HYRC will support no candidate actively. However, it encourages the work of its various splinter groups--The Taft, Dewey and Stassen exponents--as furthering its aim of bringing Republicanism before the public eye. "Besides, it does them good to let off steam," President Rusher philosophizes...
...Advocate of this month is, unfortunately, built around a completely uninteresting mess, "The Harvard Political Scene," by Mr. Bluestone and Maurice Charney. A poll of undergraduate opinion of the presidential candidates serves as the jumping-off point for a series of little essays about various politically-minded organizations around the University. This seems to be the kind of material that someone interested in any one group could easily have found out for himself, and it is presented with a minimum of readibility. What prompted this expose in a literary magazine is not too clear. Perhaps it shouldn't be dwelt...
...their advisees at any time other than the quarterly rite of signing study cards. And, because Economics is a popular field, section meetings tend to be large. Personal contact between instructor and student is rare, student participation in section meetings is minimal, and the task of integrating the various courses which a student takes in the field is left undone...