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Typical of the problems was that perennial college bugaboo, the food situation. On display is a paper, dated 1778, which authorizes the Faculty to send a Sophomore to Connecticut on a flour buying expedition, lest the College disband for lack of victuals. Then there is a letter to the College...
One hundred and twenty-five pounds of good humour, five feet five and eyes of hazel, "Miss Lupe" thinks Midshipmen are "swell says," and she's sure we'll make the world's best officers. Being very coy about her social life, all Lupy would say is "Yes, I have...
But what interested me most was a windfall of evidence showing that our editors had realized for a long time back that General Patton was a man to watch and had been watching him. For example, there was a 5,000-word report from Bill Howland, our Atlanta correspondent, telling...
For precedence purposes, commissions will be dated May 1, "three months after arrival at Harvard," although pay will not be retroactive to that date. Upon completion of the one year course, commissions will be for general service, dating from May 1, 1943. Promotions earned by time in service will be...
Wendell Willkie's quotation from William McKinley (TIME, Feb. 22) started me on a little political sleuthing in search of half-remembered words which I finally found in the Preface to Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Napoleon III in Italy, dated Rome, 1860: