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Term bills must be submitted to Lehman Hall by 5 p.m. today in order to avoid a $10 fine for late payment. Any student who has not received a bill may get a duplicate from the bursar's office if he wishes to avoid fines and a possible visit to the Dean's Office...
...three weeks, white-thatched Jesse Jones had managed to avoid testifying on some 1941 oil deals. A doctor's affidavit averred that Jones had coronary heart disease, suffered from attacks of "paroxysmal auricular fibrillation," and was in no condition to appear in court. But the plaintiff countered with an affidavit of his own. The night the medical statement was received, he claimed, Jesse had sat up until 2 in the morning playing poker with the boys, and drinking "large quantities of whiskey." The stakes ranged high, and once Jesse "backed a straight in a pot involving . . . $4,000 against...
...could Soviet physicists avoid such denunciation? The way was clear. In Ogonek (Little Flame), Professor Sergei Ivanovich Vavilov, president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, explained: "A Soviet scientist considers any successful work as impossible, in any field of knowledge, without a thorough mastery of the laws of dialectical materialism." Professor Vavilov is something of an authority on such matters. His brother Nikolai, a famous Russian geneticist and an opponent of Lysenko, disappeared mysteriously about 1942 and is believed to have died in a concentration camp...
...Plan to Avoid Overcrowding...
Similar courses, especially in the Romance Languages Department, neatly avoid the problem by handing newcomers a placement test, repeated every term, and allocating students to classes of varying difficulty on the basis of their sources. The result is that these students move just as fast as their abilities permit. An identical system would go far to help English A. If a placement test were substituted for the Anticipatory--perhaps something along the lines of the late-lamented College Board Achievement Tests in English--it could split the course into far more interesting and efficient sections of comparable skill...