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Eighteen-year-old Teresa Hawkins was overjoyed when the business school of Fairmont, W. Va. gave her a 100% grade in shorthand fortnight ago. To celebrate, she and two school chums went to the cinema. There Teresa, for no funny reason on the screen, started to laugh. Her friends, unable to stop her, took her home. Her father, unable to stop her, drove her to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. The doctors, unable to stop her, sent her to West Virginia's State Hospital at Weston, where last week she lay shaking every 30 minutes with newsmaking paroxysms...
...over huge ore deposits near Climax, Colo., a little railroad station perched atop the Fremont Pass at an altitude of 11,000 ft. Gold diggers had discovered the deposits, thought them graphite. Even after they proved to be molybdenum no one was particularly excited because the ore was low-grade (8 lb. to the ton) and Scandinavia and Australia, with small reserves higher in metal content, could more than supply what market there...
English A is one of the most maligned courses in the university. Being compulsory for all who fail to attain a grade of 75% in the English entrance examinations, it has lost none of the stigma attached to any course vitiated by an aura of compulsion. Such a course by no means presents a simple problem to its instructors, for students expecting to be bored by the repetition of grammatical rules bring to the course no interests of their own. In view of these facts, it might be well in justice to English A and its instructors to reconsider...
...intelligence found in The House in Paris nothing to alarm or repel them, felt it descend on their receptive brows not like a hail of sleet but a gentle dew. Far & away Author Bowen's best book, it is certainly one of the few Grade-A novels that will be published in 1936. Though critics have never yet put Elizabeth Bowen on a par with Virginia Woolf, they may yet rank her ahead...
Granting that progame predictions aren't worth much more than the paper they're written on, and then only if the paper isn't of especially high grade, we hereby go out on the limb and predict a Harvard victory in the Quadrangular Meet in the Garden tonight. Cornell, Dartmouth and Yale should finish in that order after the crimson runners if nothing comes along to upset our calculations...