Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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George Wald, professor of Biology, will be the recipient of the 163rd annual Rumford Premium awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Kirtley F. Mather, president of the Academy, announced last night...
...other hand, as colleges face the "war-baby boom," one often hears the argument that Harvard, as a leader in American higher education, has a "responsibility to expand." Some point out that, as long as Houses are relieved of overcrowding to a tolerable degree, it will be possible to add new Houses, one by one, and expand the student body in this manner...
...coach also favored moving the goal posts from 10 yards deep in the end zone to the goal line, but this measure was defeated. Yovicsin voted for passage of this proposal at the recent conference of the American College Football Coaches Association in Cincinnati...
...production may all too easily become a genteel ritual in propitiation of the gods of Culture. The Old Vic personnel do not fight against this tendency; they positively embrace it. Only at a few points is anything so unseemly as a spontaneous emotion allowed to mar the ceremonial calm. American productions of Shakespeare are likely to have abounding energy, but little technique or perfect taste. This Hamlet has exquisite technique, perfect taste, and no guts...
...Touch of the Poet. Eugene O'Neill's early American alcoholic innkeeper may be more gabby than necessary, but an evening with the doomed dreamer (Eric Portman) adds up to fine theater...