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...addition to not getting tutorial, the student must also study with John H. Van Vieck whose lectures students have called dull and poorly organized...
Recently twenty or thirty undergraduates organized a Railroad Club. Charles R. Cherington, associate professor of Government and John H. Van Vieck, professor of Mathematical Physics, both enthusiasts themselves, were secured as advisors, a charter obtained from the Student Council, elections held and the year's program planned. The club hopes to get outside speakers, schedule movies, and to take numerous short photography trips. Robert P. Gillis '52, president of the club hopes to arouse interest in model railroads. If enough men respond, the club will build a complete layout in the basement of one of the houses or yard dormitories...
...About 100 tons of gold bars (worth approximately $100,000,000); Banker Vieck said it was Germany's entire gold reserve...
...Banker Vieck regretted that he could not show the cache of gold; somebody had lost the key to the chamber. The Americans obligingly blew out the wall. And there was the gold, each 25-lb. bar wrapped in a sack, each sack tagged: "Reichsbank." There were sacks of gold coin, some of them too heavy for a man to lift. There seemed to be even more gold stacked in the dim-lit, salt-crusted chamber than Vieck had said...
Gold was something for reparations experts to worry about. General Earnest's intelligence officers were more interested in the three billion German marks. That currency might turn out to be a prize of golden military value. Banker Vieck remarked that the German Army desperately needed it to meet its payrolls. It was irreplaceable: Germany's money-engraving plants had been bombed...