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Everybody talked about the way some outstanding freshman players never went out for varsity football, but nobody ever did anything about it. Not, that is, until Bob Margarita installed the four platoon system...
...dance, Joint Instruction's answer to the two platoon system, heads today's social calendar for Radcliffe freshmen and eager college males...
Britain, whose subsidies support Jordan's tough little Arab Legion, made a show of force by going through with the executions. But the tough Briton who runs the Legion was nervous. Glubb Pasha's house was surrounded by half a platoon of armed legionnaires; barbed wire masked the entrance to his office; squads with Tommy guns convoyed his car. For still at large were the masterminds: Abdullah el Tel, former Arab Legion colonel (sentenced to death in absentia for the Abdullah killing), and Jerusalem's Mufti, the greatest plotter of them...
...these things, from the case method to the two-platoon system, have gone toward making today's Business School far cry from 1908, the year of the opening...
...failures, considering the heavy work load. Moreover, the "gregarious, extovert" label pinned on Business School men shows itself in the lively activity program maintained by the Student Association. Attracting University-wide attention have been the fall football intramurals, which some sections have taken so seriously as to organize two-platoon systems...