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Football games between the seven Houses and the Yale colleges, in addition to the regular Varsity, Junior Varsity, and Freshman contests, marked a successful intramural year. Of the 1202 House residents eligible for participation in the intramural program 67 percent took part in the various leagues...
Dean Donham said yesterday that each case is left up to the individual draft board, and that about 90 percent of the boards will permit the students to go through with the course and into a position as a junior executive, but he added that it is by no means a sure thing...
...Chew & Spit Club, which assembles daily on the sunny side of Topeka's Sixth and Kansas Avenues, wants to know when we will....The people are calm but determined....A bit of a fifth-column scare, bridges, railroads, public utilities, radio stations guarded....Enlistments up several hundred percent. Outwardly, everything is calm, but underneath there is a vein of anxiety and determination, a sag in optimism-but a feeling that the attack precipitated a fight that was inevitable and that out of it will come eventually victory, peace and a better world...
...first confused and even shocked by "ammoral conditions" in the new urban centers, and also seeking to provide the increasingly large percent of the American population who led dull, "stay-at-home" lives with escapist literature, authors around 1870, such a Bret Harte with his "sentimental minors", concentrated largely on travel and "local color" throughout the united States, said Goodbody...
...Thirty-one percent of Americans (22% of the farmers, 27% of small-towners, 37% of urbanites) think that interest in religion has increased since the war began, 57% think it has not, 12% "don't know." 2) Forty-nine percent think that young people are less interested in religion than the young people of ten years ago, only 18% that they are more interested. Of the rest, 24% think the interest is "about the same" and 9% "don't know...