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...core to which the Tech GE program will be tied is a random study of cultures, at six weeks per culture. The culture studies usually involve guest lecturers. Margaret Mead, for example, aided a study of south sea civilization. This sort of work goes on for two years; then the student can specialize for one and a half years after which he spends a last half year in synthesizing what he has absorbed...
...Junk," muttered Vag; he reached in the pile. Five Kinds of Writing. That certainly wasn't worth keeping. Vag opened the book at random. "Why I am a Marxist" it said. He shuddered and threw it beside the math tables. Family and Community in Ireland. The book joined the others behind the laundry case. Essays on Sociological Theory. The dust was coming up from the laundry box now as the books hit. Vag worked his way to the bottom of the box, watched a copy of Plato's "Republic" thud into the pile, and then stood up. That had been...
Elizabeth K. Heaton '51, president of the Student Government, announced new arrangements for Council meetings. Twenty students, selected at random, will receive personal invitations before the regular Monday open meetings...
...scamp, Wayne accidentally kills his unpopular Uncle Joe on a family picnic and, fearing a murder charge, talks the family into burying him secretly near by. When he learns that the dead man carried a $10,000 life insurance policy (double indemnity for accidents), he hopefully begins identifying a random lot of corpses as Uncle Joe. Twice balked by insurance investigators, once in the midst of a mock-solemn funeral service full of twittering canaries, Wayne finally decides to dig up Uncle Joe and put him where he can do some good...
COLLECTED STORIES OF WILLIAM FAULKNER (900 pp.) -Random House...