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...main reason for this shift is that membership in the Houses is not open to students in the Engineering School, and men desirous of undergraduate activities in the Houses must forego the opportunities of the Engineering School. But at the same time, undergraduate students have been advised to seek preparatory training in the field of Engineering Sciences in Harvard College, then entering the Engineering School as graduate students, continuing their work for a year or two more. However, a college diploma is not one of the requirements of the Engineering School, and those wishing to take a four year course...
...English government unwilling to assume the political dishonor of being the only one not to default. The United States, having taken neither official satisfaction from the full payment of December, nor official umbrage at the token of June, has left it in the able hands of Mr. Oltamberlain to shift from business ethics to hard reality. America must make the same change in its own attitude...
...able airplane pilot, has logged some 1,000 hr. at the stick. He started gliding in 1929. At the July meet he persuaded his father to go up with him for a sail in his Dragonfly, a handsome two-place job built by famed Gliderman Hawley Bowlus. A sudden shift of wind at the moment of launching spilled the Dragonfly into a clump of bushes, a wreck. Rescuers heard Father du Pont ask calmly: "How do you get out of this violin case?" Neither was hurt. Few days later Pilot du Pont soared a new sailplane...
...straw when he is down. Everybody will recognize Wonder Hero as both an entertaining and a moral tale. Charlie Habble was a perfectly ordinary young Midlander except for two things: he had no girl and he had a job. His job was on the night shift of a chemical plant: he had to keep awake, watch gauges, see that no fire started. One night, after one too many drinks, he fell asleep, woke just in time to check a threatening blaze a short-circuit had started. Because a feature-writer for the London Tribune happened to be in the vicinity...
There has been a large shift this year from English 28 to English 79. English 79 gained 125 students while English 28 lost...