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...tenth month, and on the 11th day of the month, the Great Sanherdin of Harvard [the Board of Overseers] met, and many of the Sons of Harvard were prevailed upon by the Threatenings of the Members of the Great Sanhedrin and confessed...
...kill" was worth two points in the newest campus craze, "The Hunt," a game patterned on The Tenth Victim. As in the movie, players are divided into "hunters," who are given the names of their prey, and "victims," who are simply notified that they are on someone's assassination list. One session of the hunt goes on for four days; then the directors assay the kills, award one point if the kill was technically feasible and actually was carried out, two points, if the kill was technically brilliant. However, if the hunter is killed by his victim, he loses...
What makes the game fun? The Tenth Victim, set in the 21st century when war has been outlawed, describes The Hunt as "a safety valve for humanity's latent aggressive instincts." The same rule would seem to apply on campus. Sophomore Andrew Lachman, who, along with Junior Michael Starrels, organized the game at Chicago, calls it "a means of letting off aggression, a way to break some of the academic tension on campus." Starrels suggests a more basic motive: "There isn't much social activity on this campus," says he, "and this is a good way to meet...
With a surface machined to within a tenth of an inch, the new dish will also greatly broaden the range of radio wavelengths which the telescope can detect...
...first time, IBM last week gathered its stockholders in Houston. The news they heard from the world's leading computer maker was more than big enough to suit the occasion. Chairman Thomas J. Watson Jr. first announced that the company is about to split its stock for the tenth time, this time on a 3-2 basis. Moreover, announced Watson, IBM next month will issue another 1,300,000 shares worth $350 million, will give stockholders first opportunity to buy them. The offering will be the largest underwriting of new stock ever undertaken by any corporation...