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Spars on all 2023 were later reinforced, and Hunter's line is still flying a fleet of 24. Both Martin and Northwest pooh-poohed the lawsuit, and Glenn Martin said it was just "a quarrel between insurance companies which doesn't affect us at all." But neither company stood to win a legal battle if it started passengers worrying all over again about the planes...
Purpose of the new professorship is the "study and teaching of history and geography of the sea and ocean areas of the earth and their affect on commerce, communication, and the spread of culture." Emphasis will be placed on the study of security and progress of the United States in view of the mid-oceanic and insular position of North America relative to other lands...
Members of the Class of '52 will be forced to take a much more rigid program of concentration than has been, necessary in previous years, because certain required courses will be offered only in alternate years. This will seriously affect only those men who intend to take some of the highly advanced courses, which have many prerequisites...
Aside from the fact that there's enough money on the table to keep the hot air coming for quite a while, the implications raised by the "crusade" are serious already. These are both formal--as they affect the legislative bodies--and informal, as they have warped non-legislative opinion and action...
Today, with its stately colonnaded campus, W. & L. is essentially the college Lee planned. Its 1,200 students like it that way. The "minks" (as W. & L. students refer to themselves, with determined superiority-their next-door V.M.I. rivals are known as Brother Rats) affect a high degree of collegiate courtliness, are seldom seen without coat and tie, still abide by the strict honor system Lee set down for them over 80 years ago. Though they come from 39 different states, most are from the South, where W. & L.'s college of arts and sciences and its schools...