Word: doned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last January his friends were shocked to hear of Louis Greenfield's arrest for manslaughter. He had called in police and showed them how he chloroformed Jerry, now grown to a 17O-lb. six-footer. He explained that he had done it to put the boy out of misery and, as a final horror, because a doctor had warned him that the imbecile boy, whose body was grown and whose mental age was two, might attack his own mother...
...possible for them to do so. That is to say that associate membership is only a stop-gap until full membership can be granted. This is to be understood by all who are admitted to associate membership. And for the benefit of those refused admission nothing less can be done than to notify them of that fact in June rather than wait until September when many rooming--houses are full. Supposedly the lack of guidance of Freshmen is proverbial; it does them no good to be left with the thought of having no roof over their heads...
...cussing: As predicted here three weeks ago, Martha Tilton has left Benny Goodman's band to marry the manager, her place being taken by Louise Tobin, who when last heard at Nick's, was very good . . . Charlie Barnet's "Only A Rose" is the best disc he has done so far . . . The Nelson of "Wave-A-Stick Blues" is a clever ditty on the night-mares of a band-leader . . . First we were given Paul Whiteman and his orchestra, then Paul Whiteman and his Swing Wing, then Paul Whiteman and his Swing Strings. this week uncovers the Sax Sockette...
...future official policy lies in the following words: "In so far as any work done by commercial tutoring schools is defensible . . . (it) should be provided by the College itself or under its direction." In simple terms, Harvard proposes to do its own tutoring. One happy day, the vicious practices and the farcical education of big-time, high-pressure cramming will have passed from the Square...
...figures on the amount of reading done in these courses indicate that the upperclassmen have done more reading in History I and Economics A than have the Freshmen. In Government I, however, the former did 65% of the reading as compared with the Freshmen's 71%; in French E the upperclassman figure is 67% of the reading as compared with the Freshman...