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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...maladjustment. There are two kinds of maladjusted Freshmen; first, those that come to Cambridge either with personality, social and moral, or financial problems, for whose predicament there can be no solution until the whole advisory system is vitalized. Second, the large number of able, well-trained men who find the Freshman year largely a repetition of their last year in preparatory school. For this group there is a remedy, and a good one: advanced scholastic work for Dean's List Freshmen in the second half-year...
Officer George DePinto has gathered a five-man team which has been in strict training for several days. The patrolmen's free afternoons find them down at the bowling alleys, rolling out strike after strike as they practice for the Yale meet...
...Dance of the Seven Veils in Richard Strauss's Salome has always been the despair of opera impresarios. Problem: to find a soprano hefty enough to sing the music, loose-limbed enough to do the dance, shapely enough to weather the moderate public disrobing...
...home silently to a scolding wife. But he was also a local politician for whom great things had always been predicted, who was honest, picturesque, wise, extraordinary in his generosity and in his devotion to his tasks. This was the Lincoln Herndon knew, and the man he could not find in any book...
...himself was well-read, a student of Darwin and Feuerbach, an admirer of Whitman, a man of the world in his understanding of men. He could turn out gnarled sentences as strong as Whitman's: "The great, keen, shrewd, boring, patient, philosophic, critical and remorselessly searching world will find out all things, and bring them to light," he wrote. "I know Lincoln better than I know myself. He was so good and so odd a man, how in the hell could I help study...