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...first days of practice will consist merely of infield and outfield work with some batting and pitching thrown in. As usual all play will be informal and no outside contests will be scheduled. Later on in the season teams will be picked and some games will be played. Only a few first team men have turned out so far due to the call of examinations and fall sports. Although the fall workouts rarely afford any definite plans for the coming season, it always offers great opportunities to the baseball men to keep in shape until the opening of regular spring...
While this move shows consideration for the expressed desires of a small portion of the student body, its wisdom and value are questionable. House football will undoubtedly suffer even though the number of players taken away from it at the beginning of the lightweight season will consist in large part of men who would not have gone out for House teams except to get in training for the 150-pound squad. 150-pound football, even if it does not deprive House football of many men, relegates it to a more sub-ordinate position...
...method comedian" rather than a "gag comedian." He never tells an off-color or race story, does not sing or dance. He buys some of his jokes from the Broadway "gag" factories, but writes most of his performances himself, working several hours a day on them. Wynn broadcasts consist of fast dialog between Funnyman Wynn and Graham McNamee. The latter does little talking except to feed cues. The program is punctuated by musical selections. Typical Wynn prattle: "The opera tonight. Graham, is very unusual ... the title of it is 'When You Were Eight and I was Nine...
Siam has never had a Senate. Produced last week like a hat-born rabbit, the Senate was found to consist of 70 Siamese army officers, the same who last fortnight staged with His Majesty's approval their placid, bloodless coup...
...single course in the Classics in translation would supply the need. Such a survey, covering the principal writers of ancient Greece and Rome, could, if conducted in a proper manner, avoid many of the defects of survey courses in literature. It should not consist merely in memorizing the literary and stylistic characteristics of the men considered, and it would be devoted to the matter and method rather than to the language of the writers. The authors might be considered as an expression of classic civilization, or they might be read with principal attention to their affect on modern writers...