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...exam-weary undergraduates courageous enough to emerge from musty study rooms and absorb some sunshine, an interesting Ivy League doubleheader between the Varsity and Cornell gets under way on Soldiers Field at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon...
...revive it, the Soviet Government didn't spare the rubles. Early last year Producer L. Baratov assembled his huge cast, began lecturing them on the history and customs of the period (1598-1605). They toured the Kremlin, the Historical Museum and the Novo-Devichi and Donskoi monasteries to absorb the proper atmosphere...
Tutorial benefits in the department extend to the full limit of the Faculty vote; any Honors candidate in groups 1, 2, or 3 of the rank list is eligible. The advantage of this is in tying together the masses of material that the student must absorb into some sort of order, making the department strong and well-integrated for the honors student. A possible drawback to the program lies in the fact that Generals necessitate a student's keeping up with specialized courses, thus limiting studies in his own period of concentration...
With the signs that the boom is increasingly in danger of bursting, any increases in the price of goods would backfire in the not-too-distant future. Consumers are finding it difficult to absorb current production, and the retailers are finding it hard to sell their goods. An R. H. Macy advertisement appealing to manufacturers to cut their prices is the direct result of a bad Easter season. Combined with a presidential request for lower costs, and a warning from their own N.A.M. that they are charging too much, business men have been well warned of future dangers. For concrete...
...teacher of composition, she is exacting, enthusiastic and compelling. She likes to absorb her pupils' lives completely, is apt to beguile them into carrying her packages, ask them to drive her car, or come in the middle of the night to do copying for her. Students either enter into the spirit of things or leave. Nadia Boulanger is a classicist who regards classicism as an attitude and a discipline, rather than a slavish conformity to formula. Says she: "Great art likes chains. The greatest artists have created art within bounds. Or else they have created their own chains...