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...week 120,000 inhabitants of Milwaukee, one-fifth of the city's population, were ill with what Health Commissioner John Peter Koehler called intestinal influenza. Symptoms: severe abdominal pains, accompanied by nausea or vomiting. Only one victim died. Another victim was Dr. Koehler himself. Said he: "Ninety-five percent of the cases are very mild. I don't believe the disease is any more dangerous than seasickness...
Responsibility for the development of sociology lies outside the Department, as well as within it. A forty percent increase* in the number of concentrators in five years and an even greater increase in the enrollment of outside men in several courses** indicates the direction in which the Sociology Department is moving. This forward motion can and should be accelerated in several ways...
...author of "The Plastic Age" reverts to the younger generation in his latest book but reveals a considerably deeper understanding of its problems than he possessed twelve years ago. The picture of youth as 95 percent hairbrained and morally insecure has been washed away and although we find similar characters in the now volume, they appear remarkably better developed...
Feeling that the expense of paying for uneaten meals causes a large percent of men to desert the House plan every year, Ethan A. Dennison, Jr. '37 is circulating a petition through the various Houses in an attempt to create a new "seven breakfast" plan in the dining rooms...
...circumstances would not permit placing a man in his chosen House, he should be advised of the reasons, and allowed to petition for assignment to another. By this "laisser faire" method most men could acquire rooms which would be comparatively satisfactory to them. Owing to insufficient capacity, about ten percent of the applicants would have to be denied admittance to the Houses, even before failures eliminated others. This discrimination could best be made on a basis of academic standing, but here again the student should have the situation clearly explained to his satisfaction...