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...about this Freshman Class. Hardly a person in Cambridge, from the teachers at Brown and Nichols to the Physical Ed department on the 'Cliffe, has failed to notice the Class of '46, No one knows quite why, but they're more attractive, noisier, more lively than genus Radcliffe is wont to be. Probably it doesn't prove anything, but this year's average Freshman is 3 inches taller and 1.6 pounds heavier than last season's. That makes here not five by five, as many claim, but 5 foot 5.2 inches tall and 127.7 pounds wide. One reason...
Sweden's bald, bushy-browed, Social Democratic Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson should have been bowling or playing bridge with Octogenarian King Gustav in the Royal Palace as was his wont. The recent elections had produced no surprises. The Government Coalition had lost moderately to the left, but had still received 94% of all the votes cast...
Student talent will be given even more attention this fall than has been the Network wont, and the series of House-Amateur-Show programs, which was started at Leverett House last month, will continue, with each of the other Houses getting the chance to put on its own show...
...Forces. The bill brought total U.S. military appropriations for World War II to a colossal $205 billion-$51billion more than the Government spent for all activities (including five other wars) from 1789 to 1940. Said New York's Republican Representative John Taber, who in other days was wont to stiffen with rage at the idea of even a million-dollar appropriation* : "Perhaps it will bankrupt us, but even that is unimportant compared with the necessity...
...first time since the Three Presidents' Agreement wont into effect on January 1, 1923, Harvard's football team is expected to play more than eight games next fail and start its season before the first Saturday in October. Although specific official confirmation is lacking the Crimson Varsity will probably play the cadets of the naval training center at the University of North Carolina on September...