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...thousands of loyal and devoted Amherst alumni these week-end occasions, which have evolved out of the founding of the first fraternity, Alpha Delta Phi, as a literary organization in the 1830's, house their fondest memories. The chance outsider welcomed into the Spring House Party--more sophisticated and relaxed than Dartmouth's Winter Carnival--is apt to come away with the impression that the average Amherst man is such a polished week-ender, he could not do anything else half so well. Actually, this is not the case...
...Over the week-end, the University secured an outside room for Bender. Closeted there, the Dean of Admissions began dictating letters. "Dear Sir: The Committee on Admissions has decided to accept your son, but has grave doubts . . ." Or: "After reviewing your son's secondary school record, we feel that we cannot accept . . ." Or: "Our conference with you last week was most satisfactory . . . Please find enclosed your certificate of admission...
Behind a desk littered with carbon copies of the week-end's dictation, Dean Bender's secretary answered calls. "Yes," she said, "I sympathize with you, but . . ." Then she asked the parent to call back in a day, when one of the admissions men would be glad to speak with her. Yesterday, however, after two months of overtime work, the committee took its first...
Evangelist Graham spends his afternoons as well as his evenings spreading the word. He also averages a speech a day to civic groups, and reaps more week-end invitations from British lords and ladies than he can possibly accept. "I am thrilled," says Billy, "and tremendously humbled by the thought of what has been achieved by God's will...
Inexperience, panic, and a snowslide combined to cause the deaths of two mountain-climbing University students, Jacques Parysko '54 and Phill W. Longenecker 3G, who perished in Tuckerman's Ravine on Mt. Washington, N.H., over the week-end...