Word: evens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...home field, Penn can be even more difficult. Two years ago, an underdog Quaker team crushed the Crimson, 6 to 2, at Philadelphia. Pennsylvania has the narrowest field in the League, and only the Quakers seem to know just how to play...
...production of Figaro holds especial interest for opera-goers because it has been designed by Oliver Messel, the distinguished English artist noted for his work in the Glyndebourne Festival. Messel is so flooded with commissions that, a few years back, he refused even to answer a letter from the Met seeking his help on another opera. He was a he is, finally got him to do Figaro--a favorite of Messel...
...keeping with the European tradition of the coffee house as a place to meet and converse with friends, Miss Yanguas does not allow any guitar playing or background music in her cafe. Even Segovia would not be allowed to disturb the quiet. Nor will she permit eccentric barefoot students to enter. "You wouldn't go to see a friend without your shoes," she declares...
...President Harnwell sent a copy containing these admonitions to every Penn student last September. As one student put it, "This letter is known in Penn circles as the 'On Being Good' letter. It is evidence of the administration's opinion of the level of maturity of the students. It even looks like evidence of a policy to keep that level...
...hand of the administration reaches even into the traditional hangout of freedom, the fraternity. Dean Peters last year introduced the novel idea of having a resident adviser in the various frat houses. "Ten fraternities have done this voluntarily; with the great improvement this practice has brought about, we hope it will grow and expand," Peters says. Still, for all its committees and representatives, the Dean's office likes to posture itself as a benevolent despot. Peters explains, "There is a certain number of necessary rules. We try to interfere as little as possible with student affairs...