Word: finches
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Princeton may become the second Big Three school to institute a program of Advanced Standing. Nassau officials are seriously considering the Harvard program of Advanced Standing, Princeton Dean Jeremiah S. Finch announced yesterday...
While refusing to make any specific comments. Finch said that the Princeton faculty was studying the program, and referred to a plan currently in operation which allows selected students to graduate in three years. The program has only been open since the end of World War II, and according to the Daily Princetonian, which interviewed Finch, "the number participating is small...
...enormously rich young planter (Peter Finch) takes his bride, a middle-class English girl (Elizabeth Taylor), back home to his tea plantation in Ceylon. Their house is an Oriental palace with all the Occidental conveniences, but the bride does not like the life in it. Her husband and his assistants work hard all week, and on weekends have wild parties and play polo on bicycles in the main hall. All. that is, except one (Dana Andrews), the second in command, who prefers to play sonatas...
...relations between the main characters are finely graded, and call on the best powers of the actors to express. Dana Andrews responds with his strongest performance in several years. Peter Finch not only fits without a wrinkle into the planter's character but moves through the outlandish manse with such negligent assurance that the audience is convinced that he grew up in it. Elizabeth Taylor, though very beautiful, is too young and inexperienced an actress to fill a role designed for Vivien Leigh...
...Corporation's 170 buildings seem a procession of contrasts. Though the seven collegiate houses (i.e., the upperclassmen's living quarters) are uniformly Georgian, rising into golden spires out of the clutter of crooked streets, Harvard has sampled the whole history of U.S. architecture, from colonial to Bui-finch, to H. H. Richardson, to Walter Gropius. The unofficial part of the Yard-the shops and stores that rim it-are a jumble all their own. Bookshops and soda fountains jockey for position; haircuts, haberdashery and history are all for sale. There is a pharmacy that once doled out pills...