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Five years ago Clarence Cook ("Pete") Little left the University of Maine in high dudgeon because he thought that during his presidency Maine had been miserly toward education. Last year he resigned his presidency of Michigan because his ''methods handling situations dealing with invests of private donors, political interets, local interests and alumni interests...
...first negative news in connection with the National Collegiate Championship Swimming Meet to be held in the Harvard pool on Friday and Saturday came yesterday when it was announced by Manager R. L. Hoguet Jr. '31, manager of the meet, that Pete Desjardines of Stanford University will be unable to compete. The Californian, whose nine team mates will make the transcontinental journey to Cambridge and are counted on to make the meet one of the most brilliant ever held in a college pool, has run afoul of scholastic difficulties, and will be ineligible to perform in the diving...
...military manifestation of that empire and for every Marine spending Christmas away from home this year there are more U. S. civilians abroad than ever before. From countless U. S. homes this month have gone forth Christmas boxes and bundles to countless far-flung civilian Jacks. Toms, Ikes, Petes. The year had been generous at home but many a son could not be present to share its holiday rewards. When other U. S. citizens were turning homeward for the year's greatest family celebration, Jack was converting heathen on Luzon, Tom was selling Standard Oil up the Yangtze...
...Pete was the first and only legitimate child of his mother Mabel, an Ojibway Indian girl of northern Michigan. Later he had a sister and two brothers. When Mabel's husband deserted her, she was glad that she would no longer be beaten, then wondered how she would support her baby. For a while she managed, by weaving baskets and selling them to summer tourists. Then she cooked for a logging camp. Then she took men. Joe Pete grew, watched what was going on loved his mother, took care of the other children, said nothing. When the Lithuanian Jaakkola...
...Marie (the "Soo") she became a school teacher there, now teaches in the English Department of Central State Teachers College (summer session). Reserved, hard to get acquainted with, Author McClinchey feels natural in the woods, is an expert canoeist, and can handle a launch in a heavy sea. Joe Pete, her first novel, is the Christmas choice of the Book League of America...