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Perhaps it is this dearth of activity and lack of places to escape to that brought well over 100 spectators to Dillon Pool last Saturday to watch the Princeton Tigers drown the Harvard aquawomen by a convincing margin. More probably, however, it was because the Tigers have a devoted following that attends every meet--a following the high caliber of their swimmers and the stellar quality of their divers merits...
...indifference of the Faculty toward undergraduates is also evident in the dearth of small courses (seminars, etc.) offered, especially in such departments as History, Government, Economics, and English. Perhaps a seminar takes more time than a lecture course, and therefore the faculty would rather devote seminar time to graduate students, but for $10,000 a year undergraduates should get the chance for more and closer contact with faculty in the classroom. A few departments have made efforts to increase the number of seminars, but there is a long...
...famous for its bawdry, but its bounty can be a trifle daunting. It would take a whiz in algebra to resolve all the plot equations in The Recruiting Officer, this season's second repertory offering at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The production reveals grand ambitions and a dearth of acting skills -champagne tastes on a beer income...
Certainly everyone has heard the well-known adage "Lesley to bed, Wellesley to wed, and Radcliffe to talk." The Harvard men who most frequently use the taunt loudly bemoan the dearth of social life and attractive females at Harvard, and openly advertise their trysts with girls at other colleges and junior colleges. Accustomed to being called "Cliffie bitches," and frigid ones at that, Harvard women develop a not-surprising feeling of antagonism towards females from other colleges, whom they frequently see populating the Harvard House parties and dating Harvard...
Until now, says J.P.L.'s Murray, the U.S. has been the unquestioned leader in such activities. Interplanetary space, he notes, has been virtually "an American lake." But he and others fear that with the dearth of new programs, the U.S. could lose ground-especially in relation to the U.S.S.R., which space experts, like military men, are concerned about. Although the Soviets have not fared well in their unmanned explorations, except for landings on Venus, they are surpassing the U.S. in manned space projects. By launching men into orbit every few months, they have accumulated nearly twice as many...