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...Glee Club, unable to travel during the fuel-rationed war days, took its first spring trip in 1946 and continued the full schedule of local concerts and yearly appearances with the Boston symphony that had begun during the mid-1940s...
Nevertheless, we had good times. Mine included rehearsing the "Brahms Requiem" with the Radcliffe Choral Society, the Harvard Glee Club and the BSO; hanging out with some fairly pretentious literary types (among whom I include myself) in Eliot House getting high--I kid you not--on conversation and strong tea made in a samovar; attending a harmless little riot on Garden Street following an alleged robbery by Harvard boys on Radcliffe's dorms; helping to found Pro Tem, which was, as its Latin announced, an interim war-time magazine. Our advisor was Mark Schorer, then teaching English at Harvard...
...third argument put forward by Mansfield regards the disparity between the SAT scores of black and white admits to Harvard. He notes the discrepancy with glee, as if the fact of its existence somehow demonstrates the insidiousness of affirmative-action programs. But the very purpose of affirmative action is to supplement criteria like test scores with a more complete view of applicants' other qualities. In his report, President Rudenstine acknowledges the gap, but rightly points out, first, that a fair admissions program does not look at numbers alone, and second, that black SAT scores have been gradually converging with white...
Fenway Park is scheduled to be torn down in a few years. As any Sox fan knows, its history is not one of piling up in glee on the pitcher's mound and having champagne baths in the locker room. It is one of Bill Buckner letting a routine grounder scoot through his legs...
Marvin and Defotis will each direct the three choirs for part of next year. Defotis will begin conducting the Collegium next fall and travel with the Glee Club over spring break and summer vacation, while Marvin will continue with RCS and Glee Club until sometime in the spring...