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Greasepaint still behind their ears, many of the members of that community loudly deny that the Faculty should control the organization of drama at Harvard, and claim that students should be left to run their own affairs. Such an attitude ignores the realities of the present situation...
...story-involving an exiled Hungarian nobleman returning to claim his father's estate, a beautiful gypsy maid who is really a princess, a treasure buried on the land of a rich and comic pig farmer -is a typical operetta mixture of farce and romance. Unfortunately, Director Ritchard and his cast could not quite make up their minds whether they were working for laughs or for sentiment. And for reasons best known to himself, Translator Valency had his Hungarians rising in a patriotic revolt against Austrian oppression (the 74-year-old original involved merely a musical-comedy war against Spain...
Former Democratic Vice President John Nance Garner, who once hoped aloud that he would live to be 92 (so that he could claim as many years as a private citizen as in public life), turned 91. But that was too close to 92, so he has now raised his goal to an even century mark. To the usual wearisome questions about his longevity, "Cactus Jack" Garner gave an unlikely answer: it seemed to have something to do with his daily custom of eating grapefruit. But some citizens of his home town, Uvalde, Texas, suspect that Garner did not really give...
Logic, argues Russell, cannot provide a man with a set of ethical beliefs. Russell does not even claim to know why he himself believes in the virtue of free inquiry, though logic can tell him the implications of such a belief: "If, for example, it is held that one should act with honesty, then this does not depend on the size, shape or color of those with whom one happens to be dealing. In this sense, then, the ethical problem gives rise to the conception of the brotherhood of man. It is a view first stated explicitly in the ethical...
Undergraduates should have "first claim" on any deconverted rooms, John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Master of Eliot House, commented. Both Finley and Owen emphasized that space might be made for "exceptional" graduate students, given the present problem of crowding, but no larger number could join the Houses...