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...winter grind in the Newell tank and the miles of arduous pulling on the river, Bolles likens, picturesquely, to a historian's reading in the Widener stacks. It is a self-satisfying labor, accompanied by a feeling that "we have made the effort, even if we don't excel." Of the American sports enthusiast who follows and plays football, baseball, and basketball for his team athletics, and who wonders why anyone would take up crew, Bolles smiles wisely and asks, "Have you ever rowed...
Leonard Bernstein, brilliant, brash young (28) man of U.S. music, triumphed in a ticklish test. In Manhattan he led Dr. Serge Koussevitzky's Boston Symphony Orchestra through a short but arduous young man's program: Symphony No. 7 in C Major (which Schubert wrote at 31), Le Sacre du Printemps, which Stravinsky wrote at 30. It was the first time that 72-year-old Serge Koussevitzky had ever let a guest conduct his Boston Orchestra for a whole concert in New York. Carnegie Hall was so packed that even Pianist Jose Iturbi had to stand...
...Harvard College Observatory prepares for its centennial celebration on December 27, its staff scarcely glances back over the arduous way travelled since that meagre beginning in 1846, when the first permanent observation station was founded: a ten-room building on Summer House Hill, equipped only with a 15-inch refractor and meridian circle determinants of time and star positons...
...When the arduous task of assignment begins on Thursday, the priority system will be: single season tickets first, then other single seat applications in the order--undergraduates, alumni, graduate students. Following the singles, all pairs are assigned according to the same system and so on with the triples and larger blocks...
Getting a slow start on the arduous task before it, the Council Constitution Committee devoted its first meeting yesterday afternoon to procedural questions. With Edric A. Weld in the chairman's post, the group discussed the methods it would use in its efforts to draw up a new constitution within five or six weeks...