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Samuel Beer, associate professor of Government, hit at Ike's lack of effective leadership, remarking that it had created a "vacuum of policy" into which mid-west Republicans had stepped. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. '38 criticized the recent cut in the defense budget as "endangering our security...
Second, despite the fact that coaches have trained men in the fundamentals of the "other" platoon, very few players today are totally competent two-way operatives. The situation--here at least--is not so bad as in the mid-West. But a system which has been geared to produce specialists cannot be expected to turn out football players under the same limited practice conditions...
Most pullman trains to the West and Mid-West were also reported full, but South Station officials said that extra cars may be added to several trains to accommodate the overflow. At present, however, the New England States to Chicago, the Wolverine to Detroit, and the Colonial and Patriot to Washington are completely reserved...
Geographically, it is evident that Harvard is concentrating on decreasing the number of men from the New England area, and in slightly raising the number from the Middle Atlantic, Mid-West, South; and Far West regions. Between the classes of '54 to '55, New England representation at Harvard dropped from 44.4 percent to 38.1 percent, while every other region rose nearly two percent...
Yale has tried to keep its largest geographical group--the Middle Atlantic--between 35 and 40 percent of the school. Last year, 37.8 percent of the freshman class came from this region. There are considerably fewer Elis from New England than at Harvard--28.6 percent, slightly more from the Mid-West and South, and fewer from the Far West...