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Nobody was able to locate Magee. At week's end the painstaking search of the wreckage revealed no sign of him. But a great crater gaped at the spot on which his vat had stood and a little lake of murky liquid lay at its bottom. Police asked a chemist to dip up a little of the liquid and analyze it. It seemed possible that it would contain the last, mortal traces of "Doctor" Magee...
Whether to endure one lecturer's passion for reciting dates, or to be clubbed over the head with the personal opinions of another-this is the classic dilemma of History students in search of a good course. Page one of any book on Education says that this should not be so, but the teaching of history's mazes is understandably jammed with recounters of obscure events, and with lecturers who ride private hobby horses down the long sweep of History. That Professor Crane Brinton has synthesized rather than compromised these extremes is a viewpoint that surprising numbers of otherwise unwarlike...
...practicability is shown by the Bible. Shakespeare examinations in English and History and Literature: one wouldn't have to study for them if he were lucky enough to know the elementary material involved. This test, no more than the admirable General Education courses, would not settle forever our search for "a common core of knowledge"; but it would at least help students avoid the temptation of meekly submitting their destinies to whoever happens at a given moment to be making our policy...
Riding the crest of a ten-game winning skein as a result of their hairbreadth 6-5 upset over Dartmouth last Saturday, the Yale hockey forces will face off against Harvard this weekend in search of their fourth Pentagonal League victory in a row. Since the beginning of their winning streak of January 15 by virtue of a 7-1 triumph over Clarkson Tech, Coach Murray Murdoch's skaters have piled up an average of 7.7 goals per game as opposed to 2.3 for their opponents...
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