Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Theodore Morrison, now heading English A, has run up against the placement idea before. He rejected it because of the "unfairness" in making section men teach class of inferior students, and in addition felt a "general hunch" that the whole thing would not work. Neither argument is particularly valid. Instructors in French and Spanish teach ability-grouped students all the way up from the "inferior" level; everybody seems quite happy about it. And it is somewhat silly to retain the present system on what Morrison admits is "just the simple feeling that a placement won't be any good." Instead...
...junior award--the college seal in felt--was won by Anne Parsons '49, for 500 points...
Other awards went to active participants who piled up points in last spring's sports, softball and tennis. Members of the winning softball team in the intramurals received felt "R's." Runners-up were given their class numerals...
...interesting evening. "The Messiah" is comparatively easy to sing, but extremely difficult to sing well. Last night's concert was not professional, but nonetheless at the end you felt as though you really had beard a tremendous performance. It left you with an impression of massiveness, of light, and of extraordinary perfection. No one can deny that the Orchestra and Chorus have overcome "The Messiah's" difficulties and come through with a job well done...
...know what Louis Hartz had to say, it was a frustrating experience to hear him get to some crucial syllable and then to lose him in a mass of interruptions by the young liberals, who didn't have any more ideas than I did, but being young liberals, felt inspired to express themselves. So it was a sort of delayed intellectual fulfillment to hear Hartz speak about the elections, along with Louis Bean, on Monday evening. He spoke from the lecture platform of Emerson D, and there was no kibitzing...