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Advocating a bridging of the gap between prep-school and college instruction, Wolff's last March 4, contributed its Massachusetts Avenue quarters for a large and well-stocked cocktail party of Freshmen and their feminine companions, after the University had refused entertainment privileges to this group of Yardlings...
Rupert Lewis was pounding along the smooth Jackson-Vicksburg highway in his truck one night last week, trailing a car ahead. Suddenly the twin taillights in front of him melted into the road, disappeared. Driver Lewis caught a quick glimpse of a black gap in the concrete before his own truck plunged. The lights went out, water rushed into the cab. He smashed a window, somehow came up in a turgid flood...
...long last the House Masters meet today to consider the recommendations in the Student Council Report published two months ago. It can only be hoped that such tardy action does not indicate rejection of the stop-gap measures which have been advocated. The two major suggestions of the Report--the compulsory admission of Juniors and Seniors to Houses and the Associate Member Plan--seem to be the only practical immediate solutions to the House problem at Harvard. And, as such, they should be accepted by the House Masters...
...Kirkland Deacons are strongly entrenched in first place as the Houses have gone well past the half-way mark in the year's activities. The Deacons have amassed 8511/2 points as compared to second place Lowell's 7851/2. The Bellboys, however, are expected to close the 66 point gap this spring, but whether they can overtake the flying Deacons is another question...
...gate receipts, either some generous endowment must be forthcoming or else burly Western gladiators must be imported to make up a super-football machine, if the much-needed structure is to become more than a mere pipe dream. Until such time, the College can well adopt a temporary stop-gap measure in converting the unfinished top floor of Dillon Field House into two or three bunk rooms so as to take care of at least a few of the visiting aggregations. To do this would require only a small financial outlay. Although only a modest beginning, it would...