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...Princeton, last week's academic blow-out capped what one guest, the University of California's President Robert Gordon Sproul, called "a whole year of unremitting celebration." The fourth oldest college in the U.S. had honored its past by inviting men from all over the world to discuss the World's future. Throughout the year, hundreds of statesmen and scholars, including Historian Arnold J. Toynbee, Philosopher William E. Hocking, Physicists Karl T. Compton and J. Robert Oppenheimer, Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, Biologist J. B. S. Haldane, had come & gone...
...tied because the Student Council forbids the spending of more than $800 for an orchestra. No name band will play for this money. The allowance should be raised to $1500, and one of the country's best outfits hired. This is the initial step toward making this weekend the blow-out that it should be. Glenn Miller is really something to take a girl to; Raymond Scott, who seems likely to get the job, is just another dance band...
Last April the blow-out ended with a near-riot when some students from Toch kidnapped Rochester, Jack Benny's negro stooge who was one of the top-listed performers on the program, and brought him in well-guarded at the close of the get-together...
...Star Wagon, by Maxwell Anderson (who improvises on his own Hammond, and whose sons discovered that its electrical impulses can produce a sound like a blow-out), was not affected, since the Empire Theatre already has a small orchestra. But Many Mansions, which opened last fortnight, felt the full weight of the union's hand. Besides paying a Hammondist $200 a week, its management had to hire three musicians at union scale ($100 a week for the leader. $75 for others). Since no one wanted them to play, the three last week watched the show every night, prepared...
Anniversary of Charles William Eliot's birthday will be celebrated by Eliot House on Thursday. March 19. The celebration will take the form of a "Gaudy", Balliot College's form, for a "blow-out", Eliot's "Gaudy" will be a House dinner, soup served at 7 o'clock sharp...