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Tomorrow's meeting of the class of 1939 represents a well-intentioned attempt on the part of the University to light the way for unwary freshmen in their search for the most suitable field of concentration. With the deadline less than three weeks away, most of these students still find themselves groping in the dark, getting shreds of completely inexpert advice from undergraduate friends, well-meaning families, or casual acquaintances among the faculty. In the majority of cases, this year as before, the services rendered by freshman Advisers will not be able to be measured by Mallinckrodt's most sensitive...
...college. Tuberculous since he was 17, he was bed-ridden most of his years, lived a life as inactive as his grandfather's was exciting. He kept financial reports by his bedside, was sharp enough to get out of the stock-market before the 1929 crash. In search of dry air, he was carried to Egypt, Spain, then to the U. S. Southwest for good. Not since 1923 had he seen a football game with sharp-faced President Walter Dill Scott, of Northwestern, great ferret of endowments, great friend of Deerings. Roger died at 51 last fortnight in Albuquerque...
...bundled against the cold, Idaho's Senator William Edgar Borah is taking his daily stroll in Washington's Rock Creek Park. He is set upon by two young women in men's clothes. One pinions his arms. The other fumbles beneath his heavy overcoat in search of his wallet. The Senator breaks loose, casts about with his cane, whistles shrilly. Foiled, the two young women turn, flee...
...sacking of the Dunster Funsters' broadcasting studio in Lowell House: At the first peals of Dunster's bells, coincident with the Fly Club's winter dinner, Colonel Apted set out upon the most methodical search of each room of the Tower entry of Lowell House, seeking the transmitting center. After some fifteen minutes his quest led him to the fifth floor suite, wherein lay his blatant quarry...
...Magnin's husband Isaac, who emigrated from The Netherlands to the U. S. just before the Civil War, fought as a Confederate cavalryman, turned pushcart peddler in New Orleans. With some savings, he went to London to look for his long-lost father, found his bride in the search. Isaac Magnin then set himself up in London as a wood carver and gilder in a picture-framing shop. Late in the 1870's, the Magnin's set out for San Francisco. There Mrs. Magnin picked a shop between the business and residential districts to catch the trade...