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...Cope Murrell, the patient, even-tempered woman who does most of the teaching, moves from one group to another, coaching them through the rigors of long division, watching over their shoulders as words are scrawled on blue-lined practice paper. Their progress, she says, is amazing. "They sort of blot it up, as fast as you throw it at them...
Alumni reaction to the Allston Burr Lecture Hall, however, seems to indicate that many feel the architects have gone too far and that the building "will remain as a blot on Harvard for all time." such terms as "inhuman pile," "false," "unsightly," and "incongruous" have been used by indignant graduates in describing the building...
Ryan further charged that the failure of universities to fight Communism within their ranks was a "serious blot on the escutcheon of democracy," because campuses all over the nation are full of "gullible students and educators...
...Wildkittens have a season's record of six wins and one defeat; the sole blot on their schedule was a one-point less to the Boston University freshmen...
...young miss grimaces and screams; indeed, it is a tribute to Astaire's sure and quick footing that she does not step on his toes. She is as out of place as would be a haggard Navaho dancing tom-tom circles in the Easter Parade. If one could only blot out her image, the film would be vastly improved, as it is during three brief dance sequences when Astaire is alone and unmolested...