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...plan of the Undergraduate Committee on Athletics calls for groups of no more than six undergraduates, plus their dates, sitting together at a game. It also proposes that recognized organizations be allowed to sit together as separate groups. Their application for tickets would be taken at random from the lowest class in any group...
...worn through. For example, two years ago, the Band appeared on television for a charity drive, while the same year, the Rugby Club was denied permission to play at a benefit for Cerebral Palsy. The Band and football team have consistently been heard on Atlantic Oil sportcasts. This random selection of clubs and sponsors leaves the rule arbitrary at best. Only by giving all groups automatic permission, can the University avoid appearing to discriminate between them...
...EXPLOITS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (338 pp.)-Adrian Conan Doyle & John Dickson Carr-Random House...
...autumn of 1928, Harvard was well on its way to becoming an urban university: if not a Paris, then a Boston University or CCNY. Increased admissions had created a mass of undergraduates living at random about Cambridge, eating at cheap counters along Massachusetts Avenue, and split into numerous factions, of which the club group along the Gold Coast was the most notable. Whatever American tradition of college life Harvard had once possessed was menaced with suffocation in the unmanageable mass of undergraduates...
Atkinson, who terms O'Neill "America's greatest dramatist," first became acquainted with the playwright in 1920 and remained a lifelong friend. "The unpublished manuscript I know of," Atkinson explained, "is 'A Touch of the Poet', which is probably locked up in the Random House vault...