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What is especially disconcerting about the ashtrays in Widener is not that there remains a dearth of them; this alone has led to the establishment of several fine friendships. Nor is it that nobody will empty them. While people are stuffing their minds it may not be urged with fairness that they get up and throw away the accumulation of their used cigarettes. Simply the fact that these ashtrays never manage to be washed is the cause of this student's complaint. Who will wash them? Not I, nor the young lady opposite. But surely someone...
Princeton coach Dick Vaughan has yet to pilot his team to a win this year. The Tiger Alumni team illustrated the present dearth of talent by winning its first game from the varsity since...
...Good Enough. He has certainly been frank about Pitt. "Our teaching," says he, "is not as good as it should be. In fact, some of it is poor. Also our research is not as good as it should be. There have been many bad comments about our dearth of research." Except for medicine, none of the university's eleven professional schools is in the front rank, and in spite of Pitt's traditional emphasis on engineering, it lags far behind its neighbor Carnegie Tech as a technological school. Adds Litchfield: "Our humanities and natural sciences are fairly strong...
...coach answered his critics in part early last month, at the annual varsity football banquet in Boston, when he decried the dearth of football material at the College. He urged the College to admit "some hard-nosed kids"--presumably of the caliber which would give him a winning football team after two losing years...
Over cocktails, an eminent U.S. chemist expressed his concern about the dearth of young people interested in scientific careers. A television producer in search of programs overheard him. "If you feel that way," he said, "you should do something about it." So the chemist, Nobel Prizewinner Glenn T. Seaborg, co-discoverer of plutonium, and the TVman, Program Director Jonathan Rice of San Francisco's educational Station KQED, got together. The result of this collaboration, a series of ten half-hour television lessons called The Elements, will begin in January over the 22 educational TV stations...