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...Harvard Rugby Club will take on a New York team at 2:15 today on the house football field. The University ruggers will be out to avenge last year's two single-point defeats by their arch rivals...
Beneath the arch formed by two gigantic elms on the grassy southern bank of the St. John River at Fredericton, N.B., some 1,000 art buffs and dignitaries gathered one day last week for the dedication of Canada's newest art gallery. "This is not the first contribution that Lord Beaverbrook has made to the arts in Canada," said Master of Ceremonies William G. Constable, onetime curator of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. "But it is incomparably the greatest." On the platform behind him, Lord Beaverbrook beamed at the crowd...
...most of his political speeches, Quincy showed himself to be an arch-conservative. He protested vigorously against the formation of new states in the Louisiana Purchase territory, deeming it unconstitutional. "By this act Jefferson unsettled and spread the whole foundations of the Union, as established by the original Constitution of the United States, introduced a population alien to it in every element of character, previous education, and political tendency." His independence of thought showed through again in a later speech on foreign relations: "But, acting in a public capacity, with the high responsibilities resulting from the great interests dependent upon...
...Harvard no matter his score. Let George do it-if he can. Guidance counselors are after bigger game: the brainy boy from a culture-poor family who always thought he was "dumb," the bright laggard who needs to be prodded. To Conant. guidance is "the keystone of the arch of public education...
...Dick Dudgeon, the imposturing knave of the title, Actor Douglas gnashes his teeth - as well as the arch dialogue -and looks less like the male Candida that Shaw intended than like a Sportin' Life in tights. Actor Lancaster, as the local parson, glooms away Shaw's most romantic scenes as if he were lost on a Brontë moor. In a climactic scene of comic derring-do, ex-Acrobat Lancaster makes heroic hash of a colonial court house and all the Redcoats in it. Otherwise he is as stiff and starchy as the clerical collar he eventually gives...