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After preliminary education these men would take a year-long course with a curriculum decided by military and college authorities. This period would be split into four terms, a division favored by such schools as Chicago, which is already on a quarter system...
What the IDs Did. One sunny afternoon two battalions of 28-ton General Grants crunched along through the rolling hills. Heavy hitters of the northbound, attacking Blue corps, they were headed for the last roundup of the outnumbered defending Red Army. Triumphantly, the two battalions split to do a pincers on the Red's last redoubt. Then came disaster. From hidden positions in the dense cedar groves and yellow-brown hickory and maple woods flags waved, signifying heavy-caliber anti-tank fire. Grinning umpires scurried out in jeeps to rule that tank after tank was blown to hell & gone...
...they did last year when Holyoke was blighted with drought, Harvard undergraduates have again offered to help the girls satiate their hunger. A new organization known as the "We share the Vittles Club" has offered to split the last 36 barrels of chicken pie family style with the Holyokites...
...unanimous vote the Field Artillery and Quartermaster Corps members of the Caisson Club, University Mil Sci organization, decided to part company in a recent joint meeting. The reasons cited for the split included the large size of the two units and the "incompatibility of their diversified interests...
...Freedman of the Business School, seeded number one, had a slight scare in the second round when Gene Sands, last year's Freshman tournament winner, split sets with him before a broken string in Sands' racquet halted the match. But in the reply Freedman won with ease and then went on to defeat Lin Burton, 6-2, 6-2, to emerge into the quarter-finals...