Word: drivingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world no longer throws its mentally sick into snake pits, on the theory, once widely held, that an experience which might drive a sane person out of his mind might drive an insane one back into it. But snake pits still exist. The Shame of the States, a recently published, chillingly factual report on conditions in state mental hospitals (see MEDICINE), reveals horrors in the midst of the world's wealthiest, healthiest country which many Americans may refuse to believe. The large, hidden population of the mentally ill lives amid squalor, dirt and creeping fear, in the solitary confinement...
...League basketball, the classy, high-rated Lowell team continued its victory streak with a solid 51 to 23 win over Adams. The Bellboy five couldn't miss, scoring on set shots, hook shots by John Altrocchi, and fast drive ins by high scorer (21) "Goldie" Goldsmith. The squad also kept firm control of the backboards. In the B League game, Adams beat Lowell...
...response to far-flung dismay over last month's unsettling food episode, the Student Council began a campaign to investigate the University's methods of preparing undergraduate fare. To popularize the drive, the Council decided to devote its annual open meeting to a discussion of the food problem. Dean Bender was invited to answer questions and present the administration's viewpoint, and the entire affair was broadcast over WHRV. On the surface, this open meeting was an excellent idea--but as it was actually handled, it virtually smothered any organized campaign to do a thorough probing job into the University...
When it tentatively accepted Dean Bender's recommendation of a detailed food poll, the Council unwittingly crushed the food drive. That Charles Brynteson has jumped over a Council decision, to go ahead with the original short poll plan, will have little bearing on the situation. For no matter what any poll will ultimately prove, the University can now sit tight for two months and let the present annoyance over food die down to an occasional whimper. Given this respite, the University may conceivably survive the rumbling storm of student protest this year, unless something extraordinary pops up again...
Radcliffe students can get a head start on Christmas shopping this year at a special Christmas gift booth sponsored and manned by the agents of Radcliffe's 70th Anniversary Fund Drive...