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When the College more or less eliminated its mid-term grades a year ago last April, it gave individual instructors the privilege of still springing hour exams on their classes. Most of the instructors used this privilege; hour exams can be a very useful yardstick for both the student and his teacher, sizing up the student's progress well before he reaches the all-or-nothing final examination...
...week ago, 20,000 loyal alumni choked with rage as they saw the Harvard varsity football team decisively beaten by a mediocre Yale eleven. It was merely the last chapter in the history of Harvard's worst season, a season in which the Crimson compiled a record of eight losses and one win. The alumni, drawing upon their years of grandstand quarterbacking and television football, decided something was definitely wrong and further decided it was the coach...
...pledge required of all Naval Science students at Harvard was first questioned two weeks ago by the Young Progressives who have organized an unofficial committee of college groups to investigate the loyalty checks...
...opportunity of discussing this theater with Jo Mielziner a few months ago. Mr. Mielziner, who designed the sets for "Mister Roberts," "South Pacific," "A Streetear Named Desire," and "Death of a Salesman," is beyond a doubt America's top scenic designer. His feeling is that "the present method of flying scenery above the stage is still the fastest, most efficient means of shifting. Modern drama is written with flying scenery in mind, and for this reason 'The New Theater' cannot be adapted by the commercial theater for quite some time...
Pankey, who was Coach Jaakko Mikkola's best junior in competition throughout the past season captained the freshman squad two years ago. He did not come out for cross-country last fall, but played jayvee football and practiced for the basketball team...