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Three members of the History Department criticized the discussion of the French, English, and Russian Revolts at a Lowell House Forum last night. Providing the topic for the forum, Richard S. Stewart '51 outlined the course of these uprisings in some detail; his thesis was that organization of "focus groups" initiated each of these outbreaks...
...Gypsy girl, who wins over the young curate, with a burr in her voice and a freshness that trails heather and high hills. John Beal is carefully naive and confused as the preacher himself. The rest of Barrie's characters are animated with a fidelity and attention to detail that only one similar movie, "Great Expectations," has recently equalled. Max Steiner, who is still going strong at this sort of thing, knitted a musical background into the story which quietly manages to take over an important part of the mood-setting on its own. The photography is simple and sane...
...staffers he is something of a mystic, inclined to mull over big plans while he puffs on a pipe or a 10? cigar. Then, with every detail worked out in his mind, he springs his ideas without warning. Sometimes, when crossed in an argument, he will seem to fumble for words, with a disarming, apologetic smile, a brown-eyed stare, and an Oh-gosh stammer. "That's the time to look out," says a man who has been fencing with him for years. "He's never fumbling for ideas; his mind simply outruns his tongue...
Rickey's idea was to measure, chart and then analyze every possible detail of the way his men performed. Checking the length of a player's stride, how fast he could run 60 yards, and how far he kept his toes from the plate were just preliminaries. One Rickey innovation this year was the batting tee (see cut)-designed not so much to teach hitters how to hit as to supply figures for Rickey's brain-trusters. By adjusting the tee to every position in the strike zone, they thought they could tell who was standing...
Concerning the way in which Professor Taylor and Professor Karpovitch have handled the course--I think they have done a magnificent job. They have stressed broad understanding rather than petty detail or a number of arbitrary points. They have asked no questions that are not obviously important after one careful reading of the assignment. As for the dates and map assignments, unlike those in every other history course I have taken, they were (1) easy, (2) helpful as hooks on which to hang more facts, (3) helpful as a way of making all migrations, territorial changes, etc., more meaningful...