Word: brookses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Critics Circle is highly Pleased at the increased interest in theatrical activity at Harvard, and hopes that it will continue unabated in the future. The theatre may be, as Brooks Atkinson said recently, "the cruelest of the Professions"; but at the student level its worthwhileness as an extracurricular activity...
With the courts set up, Junta and Sears survived a shaky middle two sets to defeat Hicks and Hicks, 6-2, 3-6, 8-6, 6-4. Junta had won the title last year, teamed with Brooks Harris.
Brooks, a Gordon McKay Professor here since 1950, has done research in the cohesive energy of alkalis, metal interfaces, lattice imperfections in metals, and the theory of electrical properties of germanium and silicon.
Brooks was a delegate to the International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy in 1955, and serves on the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards of the Atomic Energy Commission and on several other scientific committees for the government.
At fifth singles Place had taken one of the biggest matches of the day, defeating Eli captain Ed Meyer, 1-6, 6-2, 6-4. Last year, Meyer held down the number two spot for Yale, and against Harvard defeated Brooks Harris, captain of the 1956 Crimson team.