Word: comely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Council when the curtain rises on inter-House debating. This too, is the product of months, even years of labor and promotion, particularly on the part of Lawrence Ebb, president of the council. It is the high-water mark of Harvard debate in the year that the latter has come into its own, with University sponsorship and an ambitious program of radio, intercollegiate, and intramural debate...
...duty to society: here, specifically, responsibility to scatter information and advice in the practical business world. To this end it has an established program, the principal instruments of which are the informal week-end discussion groups which have met during the past few years. To these industrial house-parties come the invited representatives of prominent firms, who meet together to confer on some large industrial problem. They listen to the views of Harvard professors and other business experts on the latest developments in commerce and production, hear the philosophies and arguments of opposing sides in current business controversies. They discuss...
...many stitches have been bothering Gene Clark, who now ranks as Harvard's best miler. Cross Country will help his mile running, and he should come through down at Princeton Friday. Of all the members of the team, his nice form and easy running are perhaps the pleasantest to watch. Eddie Childs and Cliff Stevens are both half-milers, and like Clark, Simboli and Tuttle are Juniors. They will be on the team of ten heading for Tigertown, as will their classmate Dick Wing, who, like Simboli, has never run before, but who followed his roommate Gene Clark down...
...station then gets through for a spot news broadcast from an old European border town. The announcer is stationed on a tenement roof and as he waits and fears for the enemy planes to come over, his microphone picks up the incongruous, commonplace sounds and voices of women chattering, of children playing. The 1930s have brought war to the kitchen, casualties to the bedroom floor. Air Raid reflects this horror unforgettably. Sounding like the voice in a newsreel from Madrid, Barcelona, Shanghai, Nanking, Poet Mac-Leish's tensed announcer fills in the waiting time by remarking...
...millionaire's old friend, an ornithologist, who is Author Kantor's poetic mouthpiece. In a series of melodramatic disasters which involve half the main characters, as well as all the pigeons, the ornithologist is everywhere at once, confirming his mystical foreboding that no good can come of the millionaire's fanaticism, that "this entire historic enterprise had become archebiosis-the science of making living matter out of the dead...