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Appointed to consider the Experimental College report, a committee from the Col lege of Arts & Sciences last April rejected its recommendations as too bulky, and not solving all difficulties. Still to be considered by Wisconsin is an alternative plan. If the Athenian owl is once more to figure at Madison, it may be somewhat as fol lows: When the financial situation justifies, let there be established a nonresidential, co-educational unit, with one or two hundred freshmen. During two years they will take one partially integrated course in civilizations or societies, taking also "Hill" courses in a ratio...
Promptly the Munich judge ruled, "You must answer the lawyer. The Court has no questions." But Witness Hitler kept mum as an owl, sat with arms folded while his brownshirt followers filled the courtroom with a chant of "Germany awake! Awake!! Awake...
...attitude of a soldier who thinks civil matters should be left to civilians, Col. Marmaduke Grove said: "I declare emphatically the firm determination of the Army & Navy not to mix in politics but to continue fulfillment of their duty in protecting the Socialist Republic." General Puga, mum as an owl, retired...
...wears a little pig on his watch chain (TIME, April 25)- not because he is a fancier of fine hogs - though he may be-but because he is a member of Harvard's famous Porcellian Club. Members of the seven "final" clubs at Harvard wear such things-an owl for the Owl Club, a fox for the Fox Club, a fly for the Fly Club, a bull for the A.D. Club...
Peasant-born Albert Lebrun, the engineer recently elected President of France (TIME, May 16), sat owl-solemn through a Cabinet session last week, stroked his wide black mustache from time to time as Premier Tardieu formulated plans "to keep a much closer watch on all foreigners in France or entering France." Lest U. S., British or German tourists be scared away it was elaborately hinted that Russians, Italians and Spaniards will be the chief objects of scrutiny...