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...favorites in the race: Minneapolis' Dimitri Mitropoulos, Cleveland's George Szell, Paris' Charles Munch and Hollywood Bowl's Leopold Stokowski. All but Stokowski (who once was) are clients of music's Mr. Big, Arthur Judson, the Philharmonic's manager. Judson thus had a firmer hold on the throne than before Rodzinski abdicated (TIME...
...midst of this ponderous Army game, a few conclusions stand clear. The first is that there is a strong impetus stemming from high places for permanent cutbacks in tutorial. Whether this squares with the Administration's claim that tutorial is now on a "firmer footing" is left for future tutor-less undergraduates to evaluate. The second is that the individual departments have been more willing to accept this pressure than they have been to stand firm now for some concrete planning that would actually put strength into the tutorial system. And lastly, the issue of tutorial has been allowed...
...months American businessmen had operated in China in a kind of legal vacuum, created by the U.S.'s renunciation of extraterritoriality in 1943. This week they were back on firmer ground, although the "Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation" between the U.S. and China, signed recently at Nanking, did not restore the old license for freebooting exploitation...
Leverett House secured a firmer held on its second-place berth in the intramural gridiron loop yesterday, setting back a hapless eleven from Winthrop House 9 to 0, with its fifth shutout in as many starts...
While the tutorial system languishes on its "firmer footing," the need for just this type of instruction reaches a new height. As 2500 undergraduate veterans prepare to take divisional and general examinations, they race the complete absence of refresher instruction which might bridge the gap between 1942's basic courses and 1946's advanced work. Individually, the departments of the College have shown no interest in preparing for these exams the veteran who is not an honors' candidates. If tutorial on the traditional plan is currently beyond the ken of the administration, the Houses may well step into...