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...vote on crucial issues. With two hundred signers, a three-quarter vote then bound the Council to act in accordance with the student opinion. Dropping the provision will enable the Council to act more efficiently, its leaders tell us. No longer will it be bothered by the "joker element" of students that introduces crackpot referenda...
...group will meet in the future with representatives of Phillips Brooks House. In the past, persons have suggested that P.B.H. be patterned more after Dwight Hall at Yale, where the religious element is emphasized in the organization's activities...
...Thirkell fans know, the main element of likeness in Thirkell novels is that practically all of them are about the gentry of Barsetshire-the English "county" created by Novelist Anthony Trollope for his own convenience and taken over by Novelist Thirkell. There is little further resemblance between them. Where Trollope was gruff, Thirkell is pert; where he peered keen-sightedly, she drops a whimsical, astigmatic glance. Trollope loved a knotty plot, but Thirkell prefers to meander undramatically through Barsetshire, finding husbands for her heroines and painting the local watercolors. When in doubt as to what to say next, she just...
Eisenhower's time at Columbia has been an unhappy period for both parties, in the opinion of some veteran professors. These men feel that Eisenhower is "completely out of his element" in attempting to run one of the nation's top universities...
...Nervous Starlings. Most students ,,of cat ways, say the authors, have had little sympathy for their subjects and would have felt more in their element with monkeys. But the cat has never lacked supporters, who have praised it for its immense resourcefulness and high intelligence. Charles Dudley Warner's famous cat Calvin, for instance, was careful to open a hot-air register to warm his bedroom before retiring for the night...