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...undergraduate poll last year. First the idea of self-service was brought up, voted on, and rejected. Then, on May 26, the Student Council voted 60 to 30 per cent in favor of a universal rate. It was feared, however, that this was not a sufficiently strong majority to warrant action by the Master's Sub-Committee on Board Rates, until Dean Hanford announced the new plan on June...
...ancient military prison at Chalon-sur-Saone. Though in Vichy he had been given special facilities, talked with Weygand and Pétain, circulated freely as far as North Africa, the Vichy Government, to show the Nazis he was no friend of theirs, now also put out a warrant for his arrest, on grounds of stealing documents "affecting the security of the French State." (They were really photostat copies of police reports on De Gaullist and Cormmunist activities in France, for which he had paid a young Hungarian journalist, now in a Vichy clink, about...
...Reich. During his captivity, 59-year-old Author Wodehouse, who was captured when he tarried too late at a cocktail party at his villa in Le Touquet in May 1940, was rated a model prisoner. But on a quid pro quo basis good conduct seemed hardly enough to warrant such great generosity from the Nazis. Then its logic appeared...
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...seem to the layman a clear mandate, a two-to-one majority demanding a new food policy. Perhaps there are reasons, as yet undisclosed, for maintaining the present system. But since the question was considered fit subject for a poll, one is tempted to ask just what majority would warrant action. One group alone, those who now take ten meals a week, opposed the change. They constitute 7.2% of the College. It seems hardly just that so small a group should stand in the way of a change which would so manifestly benefit vast majority of the undergraduate body. Carroll...