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Miscellaneous advantages: the dormitory has gotten a high percentage of new furniture--which has blended surprisingly well with the occasional paneled walls and tiled fireplaces. It is believed that the common room will be renovated next year, and students and tutors are waging a good-natured campaign for the opening of the hall's swimming pool...
Although the Allston Burr tutorial system has gotten off to a promising start, a final judgment must wait four years until the initial appointments come to an end. Applications for the posts then will show whether the duties of scholar and administrator dovetail well enough to continue attracting high-calibre...
...Missouri and Illinois, for instance, rainfall has been far below normal, yet still far above that of the Southwest. But in the five most affected states (see map), the earth has grown drier every year. Parts of Texas, between the Red River and the weakly trickling Rio Grande, has gotten less than 10% of normal rainfall for four years; southwestern Oklahoma has gotten little more, and areas of Colorado, Kansas, Arizona and New Mexico have suffered dangerous drought. In all of them last week, not only the topsoil but the subsoil was parched deep down...
...that danger as 'chasing phantoms' . . . We know . . . that men like Alger Hiss and Harry White turned over secret papers to the Communists . . . We know that our atomic experts said that the Russians got the secret of the atomic bomb three to five years before they would have gotten it because of the help they received from Communist spies right here...
Hampered by Puritan prudery, the early presidents like the Reverend Increase Mather imposed what now appear to be ludicrous regulations. For lying, a student would be fined one shilling, a good sum. But for eating plum cake, students would be fined 20 shillings! Somehow, Mather had gotten the notion that eating plum cake was an abomination unto the Lord. His regulation, furthermore, was religiously upheld by the authorities until just before the Revolution, and naturally enough, caused students to sneak plum cake more than ever. Student complaints about the food in general never ceased...