Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many parts of the world, the executioners' business is booming, but not in Germany. Since Hitler's fall, there has been a sharp recession in the head-chopping line; Gustav Voelpel, Berlin's executioner, has had only 30 calls to the block since the war. "At 1,000 marks a head," he says, "I can scarcely make both ends meet." Hard-pressed, Gustav decided that what he needed was a sideline to supplement his income. He apparently found one. Last week, obligingly wearing his formal professional attire for the benefit of photographers (see cut) Gustav appeared...
International law and relations is probably the most general but most interesting section of the department, as for as the average sudent is concerned. Professor Wild leads the group as a lecturer here, giving an excellent fall term course in international law with a slightly less good follow-up in America's role in world politics...
...addition to the Faculty Big Names associated with the History and Lit department, such as F. O. Matthiessen, who will be absent next year but will return in the fall of 1950, there is a group of tuors who are specialists in each of the fields, and every concentrator gets regular tutorial guidance from the time he enters, unless his grades fall below the minimum Group IV rating...
...course entitled "The Materials of Music" has been announced by the department for next fall. This will give non-concentrators who have taken an appreciation course a chance to learn some of the fundamentals of theory...
Last spring he took the baritone part in the performance by the Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society of Handel's "L'Allegro and Il Penseroso." He also sang with them in "The Messiah" this fall and with the Polyphonic Choir in Mozart's Mass in C-Minor at Trinity Church. Last month he played the role of Polyphemus in the Lowell House Opera, "Acis and Galatea...