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...reputable school today. The boy in question would be in for a shock as far as Springfield College is concerned (if admitted at all) to find that, in the four years, he will have to get a regular college course besides his professional subjects. Springfield College does not recruit freaks; nor does it accept muscles as a substitute for brains. Applicants are tested as to aptitudes and then matriculated into one of the three divisions: Liberal Arts, Social Science or Physical Education...
...week, it became apparent that this exclusive little cabal was henceforth to be enlarged by "Patty." Patty is Patricia Jane Berg, a snubnosed, redhaired, 18-year-old from Minneapolis, whose doings on golf links for the past eight months have caused her to be recognized as the most promising recruit to the U. S. troupe of female golfers since the original appearance of "Glenna" herself. Last week, like most of her colleagues, Patty was in Ormond Beach, Fla., for the Women's South Atlantic Championship. She took the qualifying medal with a 73, four strokes under women...
...reason for the disapproval shown by Harvard, Yale, and Princeton students is not hard to find. All three are situated in New England, where grown-up as well showed a larger percentage of common sense. Moreover the three colleges recruit their students mostly from the weal-thier classes, classes who expect to be paying for, rather than to be receiving, the benefits...
...cavalry. In the humble opinion of British technicians who today comprise the Tank Corps, it is going to be a rare sight to behold the horsy sons of generations of British cavalrymen becoming in a few months chauffeurs, mechanics and garagemen. "It takes 18 months to train a raw recruit to be a horseman," opined the technicians, "but who knows how long it will take to make anything else out of a horseman...
...Mohammedans" has vexed Britain and France for years by giving asylum in Rome to prominent Islamites who for one reason or another have been run out of the Great Powers' colonies. Last week these sloe-eyed clients of the sloe-eyed Duce were zealously trying to recruit for him fierce Arab troops for use as mercenaries against Ethiopia. In Jerusalem, however, the Emir Abdullah of Transjordania, who keeps his throne with the aid of British bombing planes, lashed out with an interview which made prime reading in London...