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Commencing in 1912, the play first depicts Roosevelt as a robust ex-President enjoying his semi-retirement at Sagamore Hill, the family estate in New York. His random reminiscences of hunting and politicking are interrupted by a visit from three old political allies (all invisible, of course), asking him to enter the race for the Republican presidential nomination against his own handpicked successor, William Howard Taft. Taft has strayed from the "progressive" Rooseveltian principles he once propounded, stoking Teddy's competitive fires for one last, glorious battle. But the decision to abandon the comforts of private life and re-enter...
...system considers all first choices, then all second choices and finally all third choices. It is designed to maximize one's first choice. However after one's first three choices have been filled one is assigned at random to one of nine remaining houses...
Freshman interviewd yesterday felt that the new assignment procedure made housing selection much more random. Robert Kunzig '80 said that the new plan was designed more to make things easier for the administration than to help the students...
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Even if the number of black applicants does not significantly increase in the next three weeks, Fitzsimmons said the totals would not represent a "precipitative drop downwards" since the final totals have fluctuated in a random pattern between 600 and 680 applicants over the last five years...