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...famed fraternity system would be going coed, I rented "Animal House," the movie inspired by Dartmouth's most rowdy frat, fictionally dubbed Delta Tau Chi. It's a great film--crass, yes, but incredibly brilliant and witty. One of the best scenes involves the bumbling but evil Dean Vernon Wormer calling in the leadership of the less-than-academically inclined Delta House and informing them that because of their poor grades, they have expelled because, unknown to them, they have been on "double-secret probation...
...runs down from Hanover, NH to Boston, MA, we have our own Dean Wormer in the form of Governor A. Paul Cellucci, who seems to think the teachers of Massachusetts are no better than the Delta frat boys. He has been holding teachers and teacher candidates on double-secret probation since the institution of a competency exam last spring, blasting away on his ceremonial, Silber-plated whistle...
...Hole. Costly seismic surveys that backers now insist on have also tended to add to wildcatters' expenses. Oil has become harder to find in the continental U.S. as obvious geological structures have been exploited. Since 1963, Wildcatter Carl W. Van Wormer, who was once worth $300,000, has drilled 20 consecutive dry holes and has moved from a suite of four offices into a cubbyhole in Houston. Keegan Carter, of Kilgore, Texas, last hit oil three years ago. The whole town of Kilgore is in an economic decline, as are such once-wealthy wildcatting communities as Overton, Henderson...
...meeting of the Dramatic Club last evening the following men were elected to membership to the various departments: Acting.--John Hammond '19, of Chicago, Ill.; business--Frank Van Wormer Walsh '17, of Erie, Pa.; electrical--Eugene Francis McCarthy '19, of Somerville; Harold Wickliffe Rose '19, of New York, N. Y.; orchestra--James Miller Parmelee '19, of Buffalo, N. Y.; Howland Haggerty Pell, Jr., '19, of Westbury, N. Y.; publicity--Robert Morris Benjamin '17, of New York, N. Y.; stage--Weld Arnold '19, of Nutley, N. J.; Addison Center Burnham, Jr., '19, of Newton Centre; Randolph Kunhardt Byers '18, of North...
...there are a great many good individual players in college. The probable candidates for the team are: Hutching of Williams, Monks, Hoyt, Provost, Oakes, Williams, Donwell, Hildreth, Shipman, Post and Brownson. Monks is very desirous of organizing a team and the men will probably be under his charge. Van Wormer '93, of the School of Mines, who pitched for the victorious Williams College nine of '88 will probably play on this year's 'varsity team...