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Signatures & Suicides. Husky Stephanie soon began to devote her life to running the Austrian navy ("Every officer and every man," she said gravely, "realized how much I ... knew . . . about life on board ship"). But wretched Rudolph was soon too far gone to devote himself for long to anything. Out of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tailor's Death | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

In response to far-flung dismay over last month's unsettling food episode, the Student Council began a campaign to investigate the University's methods of preparing undergraduate fare. To popularize the drive, the Council decided to devote its annual open meeting to a discussion of the food problem. Dean...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Food Problem III: | 12/17/1948 | See Source »

So far, he has not been disappointed in the results, even when compared with his Michigan team of last year. "There are several Harvard players who could make any team in the country," he thinks, although he admits that the academic standards at Cambridge make it tougher for his present...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Football, Basketball, Wrestling; All In Butch Jordan's Repertoire | 11/18/1948 | See Source »

Vice-President Reynolds and his subordinates complain that they have been forced to devote more and more time to answering student investigation groups, sometimes even at the expense of their real job of University "housekeeping." Reynolds and Dean Bender say that administrative personnel are not equipped to give unilateral answers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Threat to Undergraduate Rights | 11/18/1948 | See Source »

Reynolds also explained that the great increase in student investigations since the war has forced his department to devote more and more time to interviews with such groups, at the expense of its real job of University administration.

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: Bender Explains Ruling To Curb Investigations | 11/17/1948 | See Source »

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