Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Oddly enough the winner of the last Hoop Race, Ester Coke, is also president of a far less familiar and newer Wellesley tradition, the Daisies. Not to be confused with Vassar's Daisy chain, this society is an organization of lethargic seniors dedicated to the purpose of being as inactive as possible. There are several underclass exceptions, who by exceptional feats, like spending over six hours a day in the Well snack bar, are accepted to the fold...
Most of the Yard's is familiar with the activities of the Crimson Key's Freshman Affairs Committee. This group runs the annual P.H.B. tea dances with the 'Cliffe each fall, and supervises freshman orientation...
...possible solutions: One would be the removal of the Groups IV scholarship requirement on the theory that any student in good standing has a right to apply for scholarship aid. Indeed, this Committee feels that this may ultimately be an advisable step. It does, however, raise the familiar argument about the scholastic standing of the College. In any case the issue is clearly beyond the province of a report on football, and is far too controversial to be endorsed here...
...most of its 30 minutes, Time for Defense (Tues. 10 p.m., ABC) moves in a familiar groove: detailed battle reports by Department of Defense officials, interviews with top brass, music by the U.S. Air Force band. But for several tense minutes each show, listeners are carried from their armchairs across 6,000 miles of the Pacific. Last week they were pressed hard against a low stone wall rimming a Korean rice field and hearing the clatter of U.S. .50-cal. machine guns as they sprayed an enemy-infested hillside...
...matter of fact, this poem is one of the most famous pieces of light verse over published in America. It appears in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations and in most anthologies of such work. A note in one of these, What Cheer, edited by David McCord '21, states that it was even published in Shanghal...