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...present English 10, the department's basic survey course, does not really answer either need. While a vast improvement over the old English 1, which raced through English literature, confusing students with a welter of minor names and works, English 10 has ridden the pendulum too far in the swing of reaction. It is mostly a Great Authors course...
...this period that the clubs began to change in character. The Pudding gave up much of its attempt at a scholarly tone and Porcellian members began to consider the background of its candidates as well as their wit or agreeable character. This was the beginning of a welter of Greek-letter fraternities. Phi Beta Kappa had been the first in 1776, but when other fraternities appeared they followed the lead of the established local clubs and emphasized the social over the intellectual...
Most of the talent supporting Gaydos lags behind his example only slightly. Suzanne Chappel Finch, while in a role admitting of little experimentation, manages to keep herself from being overlooked among the welter of more colorful characters by the intensity with which she delivers he lines. Fortunately, these lines are few enough, and are of enough importance to stand the force she puts on them...
...when the Crimson upset Dartmouth, 16 to 12, on sophomore Art French's last-minute run. Tufts was crushed 69 to 6, and then came the Princeton game, the last Princeton game, in fact, until 1932. The Tigers won, 9 to 0, but the game was lost in a welter of bad feeling over a Lampoon parody which proclaimed the death of the Princeton coach, a regular issue of the 'Poon, which showed two pigs over the caption "Let's all root for Princeton," charges of dirty playing, and Harvard's attempt to schedule Michigan. Behind it all lay Harvard...
...amendment would further weaken already feeble ability to cooperate with other nations. The check and balance system, entrenches the executive in a welter of prohibitions. To make Senate approval a requisite for every diplomatic maneuver would immeasurably slow international agreement...