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...present-day maze of quickly succeeding events and complex economic and political developments, the average undergraduate wanders about, eagerly seizing such bits of the news as have meaning for him, rejecting the rest. He has a vague feeling that when we "get back to normal times" he may be able to find out what it all means. The reason that he cannot grasp it now is, primarily, that he does not know where to find adequate accounts of current affairs, nor how to correlate his knowledge of them. In the second place he has not enough time. He usually reads...
...about the Oedipus complex. Or what is it called when the ingrowing bond is between mother and daughter? The Medea complex? Well, no matter--for, after all, the common, unread run of us can relish the new piece at the Little Theatre and, as its somewhat uncomfortable story develops, will wriggle and chuckle with many a spasm of recognition...
...directly to the establishment of the present type of intercollegiate football. This event was an invasion of the United States by the Rugby football fifteen of McGill University of Montreal. The ambitious young Canadians played only one game at their style of play, but that was at Harvard. The complex, brilliant features of Rugby instantly captured the imagination, and Harvard abandoned its curious code and adopted that of the visitors...
...first teams afield. Among these early aristocrats of the sport are Brown, Dartmouth, Lawrenceville, Lafayette, Lehigh, Swarthmore, Wesleyan, and Williams. An important feature of the sport which made its advent in the early '80's was signals. Originally these were words and sentences, later single numbers, and finally the complex signal systems that have prevailed for 30 years. A strange occurrence in this time was that Harvard's Faculty unexpectedly abolished football in 1885, and in 1886, as unexpectedly, restored...
...system devised for concentrating and distributing courses in the broad field of college education is well founded, but is necessarily complex and technical. With the consideration of the suggestions of the Student Council by the Faculty and with the co-operation of the students there will be in the future little or no unpleasant misunderstandings of the obscure system of concentration and distribution...