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...captain in 1943 but left for service before he could play in that capacity. The always shifty runner returned this fall to be re-elected to the same post. With an uncanny ability to size up enemy plays before they get under way, he is, in spite of his five-foot eight-inch stature, one of the best pass defenders on the Crimson squad...
...found out enough to fill a five-foot bookshelf. There had been a big mistake in the inventory: instead of the advertised $7 million worth of photographic equipment there was only $1.5 million worth. Congestion and bottlenecks were everywhere. Many purchasers went hungry rather than stand for hours in a PX line to buy food. After seven and a half hours of business, only 119 sales had been made, only $27,384.26 worth of merchandise sold...
...prizewinner was a five-foot straw woman with a lifelike straw baby on her back. The baby did the scaring, with a toy windmill whose blades swung in the wind. From the woman's belt dangled a paper banner inscribed: "Increase Production...
Harvard had led the swing to cafeteria-style learning (where students pick & choose what they want to learn) in the days of President Charles W. (Five-Foot Shelf) Eliot. And it was Harvard, under President James Bryant Conant, that in August most clearly denned the swing back-to required courses, a "core curriculum." Colgate was already at it when Harvard's famed report on General Education in a Free Society appeared. Princeton, Yale and a score of other colleges have likewise heralded a new dawn of coherence...
Robert Hutchins, Chancellor of the University of Chicago, who believes that a right good education can be packed into less than a five-foot shelf, picked the world's "ten greatest books" for readers of the Chicago Daily News. His list: Homer's Iliad & Odyssey, Plato's Republic, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics & Politics, Thucydides' Peloponnesian War, St. Augustine's City of God, Aquinas' Treatise on God & Treatise on Man, Dante's Divine Comedy, Shakespeare's Works, Pascal's Meditations, Tolstoy's War & Peace. He did not list the Bible...