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Only a year and a half ago, according to her story, she was walking through a flooded cellar when she fell and cracked her head open--"that's how I became mentally ill." "I used to have beautiful blonde hair that I could sit on," she told me, pointing to her old grey head, "but when they stitched up my head it was ruined." She assured me that her illness was only slight, and that she would leave the hospital in two or three months. "I'm just waiting until I'm well enough so I know...
...boys at Princeton, who generally measure success in terms of degrees of defeat, are pretty excited about this year's team. They rejoiced when it opened the Ivy season with home-and-home wins over cellar-dwelling Brown, and exulted over twin defeats of fifth-place Cornell. Losses at Hanover and New Haven were more than made up for by a 3-1 upset of the Elis in Princeton, and, all-in-all, a 7-4 defeat by Harvard was a pretty good showing...
...argued further that Harvard's cellar standard projects a bad image of its students. But a college's image is made not so much by what it requires as by what its graduates have achieved. That Harvard has provided the courses and the intellectual atmosphere to induce its students to go beyond what it demands--by their own volition--is no small victory. This initiative under only token compulsion argues more loudly for Harvard's "image" than would a high requirement. The present system is more than merely adequate. It is deserving of justifiable pride...
Among the possibilities for rehabilitation, Gitter envisions making the first floor of the building (once used for a factory) into a museum showing the history of the Old Howard; and the vaulted cellar into a restaurant to be leased out to help meet costs. The theater itself would be run without profit. As to the cost of rehabilitation. Gitter is convinced that he can get the necessary $1.5 million through private contributions...
While Brown vaulted into fourth place, the loss dropped the Crimson back into the Ivy League cellar, which they had temporarily vacated last week...