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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Undergraduates will need only their student ticket cards at the door to gain admittance to most winter sports contests. For varsity hockey games, which will be played at the Boston Garden, students will be entitled to a 50 per cent discount on the admission price of two dollars...
These examinations will be used by students applying from the 40 schools in the Kenyon group. This group of secondary schools gives advanced level courses to its unusually able students. If the students pass these spring placement tests they gain admission to upper level courses in the participating colleges...
...dancing is entrusted to Robert Norriss who does a comic solo in the first act and replaces Whedon as Clyde for a ballet scene in the second. Norriss has obvious talents but they gain nothing from his fixed smile--an Amateur Hour expression and indeed the only amateurish thing about Norriss. The ballet, choreographer Dolly Niggemeyer's only misstep, is a trite, dull loss for which the dancers cannot be held responsible. Otherwise, the dancing is attractive and the stage is always lively, seldom cluttered...
Today's issue of the HYRC Newsletter, in presenting trial arguments for and against the censure proposal, stresses that by advocating censure the club can gain "a more favorable position in the Harvard community. . . . The HYRC would not only have more opportunity to obtain faculty speakers and improve University relations which have been undermined by the effort of others in the past, but . . . would also dispel a reactionary aura others have assigned it," the Newsletter continues...
Third, "in order to prevent other local students from wheedling their way in, all freshmen should be required to show their bursar's cards at the door to gain admittance to the Smoker," Dolins said. "Presumably these outsiders cause a great deal of the trouble," he continued...