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...patient whose heart is about to be bared and repaired is Mr. Arcularis, originally the sad, gentle hero of a taut, understated Conrad Aiken short story which first appeared in T. S. Eliot's Criterion in 1932. Fourteen years later, dramatized with the help of British Actress-Writer Diana Hamilton, it achieved a four-week run in London. Now, still haunted by what the play might have been, Pulitzer Prizewinner Aiken has performed the dramatizing operation all over again, this time singlehanded, and with excellent results...
...year later, when we began to go to the zoo, we discovered that reindeers have an awful odor and, being behind a fence, staring out unhappily, they couldn't even fly. At fourteen we realized that Santa was so fat that his ability to walk, not to mention fly, was a highly dubious question. With another year, morality entered the picture, and we decided that a big-red-nose was a sure sign of excessive drinking, his bulging waist a sign of slovenly eating, and his shaggy-white-beard a sign of sloppiness and laxness...
Within the coming week, Harvard's eight House intramural hockey teams will begin their fourteen game round-robin schedules at the Watson Hockey rink...
Although the problem of increased enrollment is not present in the School of Public Health, it is a major question in the Dental School, and, as a result, in the Medical School. The average graduating class in the Dental School comprises only about thirteen or fourteen men, and according to Dean Roy O. Greep this figure is too small: "The School must look forward to an increase in its graduate enrollment at some time in the future." Dean Greep feels that the Harvard system of dental instruction--in which the oral diseases are looked at not from a purely dental...
...Vellucci, for he has lived much the same kind of life they have. Born in the "Brickbottom" section just across the Cambridge-Somerville line in 1914, he moved to Squires Court in East Cambridge when he was three years old. He went to a Cambridge grammar school, but at fourteen was forced to quit school and find a job when his father died. Although he attended evening high school for a while, he never graduated. "I've done a lot of reading on my own," Vellucci adds, however, "and I've taken correspondence courses on accounting." At present he holds...