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...limit the ballot to property owners, dam hands rebelled, gave Cowgirl Baker first whack at the job, 603 votes to 201. Chirped she: "We'll make this the best town by a damsite." Before the 30-day Baker whoopee regime got seriously under way, however, the conservative element in Disney, composed of Grocer Silar's best customers, resorted to an already constituted authority to gain what it had lost in the field. Chief of Police Hale Dunn marched out to a tree, tacked up a warning sign: I AM THE LAW IN DISNEY. NO WOMAN CAN RUN THIS...
...educational hullabaloo about intellectual and social guidance is meaningless to the average Freshman. And unless reformers look at every dimension of the real figure, their efforts are mere words. In trying to uplift the personal element in education to its rightful place beside the academic, they have tended to forget the major point that ultimately the result of college training depends upon the undergraduate. It is he who must make himself well-balanced, he who must determine his set of values, he who must become interested in studying, making friends, and joining activities. The idea of maladjustment can easily...
...would have been right in my element," said the African gorilla, regretting that he had been unable to get to the Lampoon's party. "Unfortunately I have never learned to swim," he lamcuted, "but a lot of my relatives were there...
From the very race it was Harvard's day. The Yardlings, hard-pressed by a steady and muscular Tech outfit, came into their element by the half-mile mark, beat the Engineers by a length and a half, and walked away with the best time of the regatta...
...pamphleteer Charles J. Moos '38 and a colleague who preferred to remain anonymous created quite a show at the Sanders meeting yesterday when they appeared with Congressman Bernard to advertise a "second Boston Tea-Party." Dressed in Indian clothes they led a nondescript element of peace strikers and Radcliffites into Congress Street in Boston...