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Undergraduate squash players are now on the path towards the creation of the "Harvard topcoat" following the model of the "Harvard hat." While one carelessly throws down his hat in the dirt with the air of one authorized by tradition, he hesitates to deposit his overcoat with equal complacence upon the well-oiled floors of the University squash courts. Indeed, a hat in the last stages of dilapidation can be explained away as due to "indifference", but it is difficult with equal propriety to dismiss a soiled and much trampled-over topcoat as caused by a similar disregard for convention...
...YEARS ARE WE WITHOUT LENIN, BUT WE FOLLOW LENIN'S PATH WITH GIANT STRIDES...
...decade of the last Century, a young woman medical student was jeered and hooted by male classmates. Women were not then supposed to have technical careers, or minds of their own, or the liberty of going about the city unchaperoned. Fellow students enjoyed blocking the young woman's path to classrooms and simpering sarcasms in her presence. "A woman of genius might reasonably consider a profession, but surely an ordinary woman shouldn't." "Fool men go in for medicine, why not a fool woman?" But Maria Montessori had the satisfaction of being the first woman...
...This is, he said, the first attempt ever made to trace the subsequent careers of criminals after their incarceration. The statement had been made and generally accepted that when criminals had served their terms and were let loose, approximately 80 per cent of them went the straight and narrow path thenceforth. But Glueck went into the matter in detail. He looked into every corner of the lives of 500 criminals at four stages in their careers, compiling statistics at every turn. Ninety per cent of these men were kept in touch with while located in every part of the United...
...parallel U. S. air path between San Francisco and New York is 2,700 miles...