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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bolstering the representative character of the Combined Charities Drive can, perhaps best be accomplished within the new Student Council. The new Council is now elected from House constituencies; it is a body more accessible to the average student, who probably knows his representative. The members appointed by the Masters also will strengthen the Council's ties in each of the Houses. Removing the charities appeal from Council auspices will not make the drive more representative, but rob it of an institutional framework already existing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charities and Council | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

Harvard probably has the best last-five-minute hockey team in the East. Another superhuman effort Friday night netted the two tying goals against Boston College just 46 seconds apart, but Eagle Jack Cusack's 20-foot slap shot at 6:33 of the sudden death period sent the Crimson home with a 3-2 defeat. The junior varsity and freshman teams were defeated by 5-3 and 3-0 scores, respectively...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Hockey Team Drops Match To B.C., 3-2 | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

...with a couple of brilliant new works, started off with Bach's "Little" Fugue in G Minor, as arranged by Leopold Stokowsky. One is continually impressed by the faithfulness to the spirit and style of the original in Stokowsky's tasteful arrangements, and this is one of his very best. The clarity of the polyphony was especially remarkable in yesterday's reading...

Author: By Paul A. Buttenwieser, | Title: The Lowell House Bells | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

...less professional nature. There have been questions about cross-word puzzles, or about how to win at scrabble. A Novia Scotia farmer once sent his poems to be "criticized." The piece-de-resistance is probably a letter from a high school teacher asking for a list of the "twenty best books, with reasons...

Author: By Paul W. Schwartz, | Title: Warren House | 1/9/1959 | See Source »

...door and the room where Kittredge, Lowes and Bliss Perry once examined. Visiting chairmen of other English departments return to see the house which gave birth to their scholarly careers. Everyone agrees that something intangible contributes to making Warren House the indispensable institution it has become. Perhaps one professor best summed it up in quoting Santayana's description of Concord: "External humility and inward pride." ir?-, iohkRCcotkle

Author: By Paul W. Schwartz, | Title: Warren House | 1/9/1959 | See Source »

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