Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comes form Roxbury, prepared at Roxbury Latin School, and has been Chairman of the Freshman Red Book, Ibis of the Lampoon, Treasurer of the Student Council, and is Chairman of the Senior Album Committee and a member of the Winthrop House Committee. He was one of the Junior Eight in his Class elected to Phi Beta Kappa...
...record of six months' travel in Czecho-Slovakia before Munich, North of the Danube contains eight sensitive, compact sketches by Erskine Caldwell, 64 photographs which include some of the best Margaret Bourke-White has done. Slighter than their classic word & picture study of the South, You Have Seen Their Faces, it unfortunately appears when Czecho-Slovakia is a last year's bird's nest. But this is a travel book with an interest which survives politics; even as its subject, the Czecho-Slovakian peasantry, will survive Hitler. Best sketch: A scene in the Carpathian Mountains where, protected...
This is the precocious first novel of a precocious bricklayer. Born 28 years ago in the slums of West Hoboken, N. J., handsome Pietro di Donato was 14 when his father was killed in a construction accident, leaving a widow and eight children. Pietro, a "bricklayer in diapers," took up his father's bricklaying trowel, has supported his family ever since. In his off-hours he read everything in sight, especially Russian novels...
...book skimps none of the realities in the life of a master realist. At five, having been carefully deceived as to the manner of birth of his sister Maria, Diego was discovered in the kitchen making an incision into a mouse's belly. At eight, he caused even greater consternation when he and Maria were found playing house with the doll-like corpse of a brother who died in infancy...
...field on greatly strengthened by the success as a teacher which led 250 students to put their names to a petition demanding his retention on the basis of his work this year. Unfortunately for the head-in-sand opponents of everything Mr. Hicks stand for, the Committee of Eight published its report on tenure and appointment at the wrong time. Here is the definite statement that a university should not merely tolerate "heretics" among its professors but should deliberately seek representation for unorthodox, minority views. "Harvard would not be true to its ideals or to its role if its appointment...