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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shortcomings of the Brattle Theater's "Troilus and Cressida" are shortcomings only by comparison with the general high level of the production. Exams permitting, it makes a rewarding evening...

Author: By Maxwell E. Foster jr., | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 1/21/1950 | See Source »

...comparison, on an average winter day with a temperature of 30 degrees, the University uses approximately 3,000,000 pounds of steam each 24 hours. When the temperature skids to 10 above, the consumption is stepped up to 4,000,000 pounds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Gives Winter Cold Shoulder | 1/19/1950 | See Source »

...slowest of the year, aside from a whirlwind start to the second period when Jim O'Brien took a Walt-Greeley pass in front of the nets and scored in the 19th second of the stanza. The one-sided story is best told by a comparison of saves--24 for Ed Smith of Andover and 11 for Corning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Top Andover, 3-0 | 1/19/1950 | See Source »

...canto of Tasso's "Jerusalem Delivered." In it Collette Marchand, who also stars in "L'Oeuf a la Coque," dances beautifully in a more traditional style. "Le Rendevous" is a somber and moody ballet of Paris which features Henry Danton. As good as they are, these suffer by comparison with such excitingly imaginative spectacles as "Carmen" and "L'Oeuf a la Coque...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: THE BALLET | 1/18/1950 | See Source »

...report to make U.S. college and university fund raisers sit up with a snap. Education Professor Clara P. McMahon of the Johns Hopkins University had done a little digging in 15th Century fund-raising tactics at Oxford, found 20th Century techniques "pale in comparison." In an article in School and Society she told how it used to be done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Magnificent Sir | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

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