"M-mm"

"Mmm"

Male students at the University of Nebraska elected a "Perfect College Girl" for their Junior-Senior Prom last week.* They based their votes upon eight considerations, of which the first seven were Legs, Body, Hair, Face, Voice, Personality, Intellect. The eighth consideration, new to non-Nebraskans, was "M-mm." The editor of Nebraska's Awgwan (funny monthly) defined "Mmm" as "general seductiveness"--a Nebraskan synonym of Elinor Glyn's outworn "It." Nebraska's "Mmm" girl, placing first as to Legs and tying as to Hair, proved to be one Jane Youngson, shapely blonde. The Nebraska co-eds voted too, for "Perfect College Man," on the bases of Eyes, Physique, Face, Hair, Voice, Personality, Intellect and "O-ooo" (male equivalent of "M-mm").

A little bored with the co-educational penchant for such elections as Nebraska's, the Daily Northwestern of Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) editorialized last week: "The practice of the [this] school is democracy. This wholesale condition can be realized by having more and more queens and still more. Let our motto be: 'A Queen for Every Need.' "

Fighting Polyglots

Journalists have for years continued to call Notre Dame University's football teams ''The Fighting Irish," even when the teams were full of Savoldis, Sheeketskis, Schwartzes, Carideos, Jaskwhichs, Melinkovichs, Stuhldrehers, Poliskeys. Last week, on St. Patrick's Day, a survey was released which proved "Fighting Irish" still apt. It was found that 999

Notre Dame students are Irish-descended. But this count was reached by including some Irish mothers, disregarding non-Irish fathers. Other Notre Dame nationalities: 567 Germans, 280 British, 199 Slavs, 145 Italians, 84 Frenchmen, 56 Scotsmen, 39 Jews (mostly German), 15 Spaniards, six Scandinavians, six Syrians, five Greeks. Total non-Irish: 2,209.

Prodigious 95%

Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) was suspicious four years ago when it received an entrance application from a 13-year-old named Harold M. Finley of McConnelsville, Ohio. His credentials were scrutinized warily. Admitted, he did such good work that Northwestern's President Walter Dill Scott had a notion. With considerable publicity he invited other prodigious youngsters to Northwestern (TIME, Feb. 22, March 7, 1932). Out of some 100 applicants, seven 14-and 15-year-olds were admitted last autumn.

They were given a stiff intelligence test, a special committee to watch them. They studied together, lived together, played together. Three of them had flu together. Northwestern sheltered its youngsters, called them "precocious children," announced it would make no report on their work for some time. But last week President Scott had a yardstick by which to measure prodigiousness. Original Prodigy Finley, now a 17-year-old senior, made Phi Beta Kappa, with grades averaging 95%. This was no record. Columbia University once had a student named Edward Roche Hardy Jr. who entered at 12, made Phi Beta Kappa at 14, is now a high-church Episcopal priest and General Theological Seminary lecturer at 24. P:Speaking before science teachers in Manhattan last week, Dr. Abraham Flexner of the new Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton revived his dream of setting aside for prodigies one of New York City's 42 public high schools. Said he: "There is much talk nowadays about economic waste, but no one says a word about the tremendous intellectual waste that goes down into the gutter. . . ."

*Princeton's Junior Prom and some of its house parties, also Dartmouth's Green Key Prom, Amherst's Senior Hop, were all postponed indefinitely last fortnight. Rutgers reduced expenses from its Prom last month, made more money than ever. Yale's Prom was held in smaller quarters, with no flowers.

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