Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newly-formed Commission on English of the College Entrance Examination Board finished its first series of meetings here Monday. Its Chairman, Harold C. Martin, Chairman of the Committee on General Education A, said the Commission, composed of university and secondary school teachers, discussed ways to find out what the quality of English instruction in American secondary schools is, and what improvements must be made...
...first half of the evening found the Choral Society alternating between uneasiness and an unusually lacklustre manner, with even their dependable tone sounding either shrill or dead. By contrast, the second part exhibited the familiar spirit and high quality of the chorus, especially in three beautiful Welsh folksongs arranged with taste and imagination by the Society's conductor, Elliot Forbes...
...only by contrast, but in their own right, it seemed to me that the other dances were rather dreary affairs. The first, and much the longest, was based on Thurber's "The Wonderful O." Read by an anonymous narrator, the story was fun to hear, but it was interrupted at intervals by dancing, much to its detriment. The danced portions were sung by a small chorus competently led by Emily Romney. Stephen Addiss' music contented itself for the most part with a two-part chanting of the text which was serviceable but monotonous, only occasionally relieved by moments of lyric...
Statistics totals after eight games rate the varsity football team comfortably ahead of its opponents in every department except passing. Crimson rushing has been 150 per cent as successful as the other teams'. The totals: H OPP. 125 First Downs 105 1743 Yards Rushing 1032 519 Yards Passing 822 98 Passes Attempted 151 39 Passes Completed 63 9 Had Intercepted 9 42 Punts 42 37.6 Punting Average 34.2 10 Fumbles Lost...
Good grounds do exist, however, for holding that the J.B. boosters tend to think of the Saturday Review as the house organ of higher culture in America. For it was from there, a year ago last May, that the first salvo of literary enthusiasm was discharged, by the noted American poet and fearless antagonist of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, John Ciardi. "Archibald MacLeish's J.B. is great poetry, great drama, and--as far as my limitations permit me to sense it--great stagecraft," he proclaimed in the opening sentence of his article, "The Birth of a Classic." A prefatory note explained...