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...conned into going to the annual Krok/Whiffenpoof/Tigertone in spring of my freshman year. My most vivid memory of that event, two years later, is of a group of young out-of-town women, apparent veterans of Krok concerts, clamoring for seats in the front row of Sanders. Half-way through a song in the second half, when a bearded and chivalrous Krok stepped out into the audience to take a random young woman by the hand onto the stage, it occurred to me what the seating ruckus was all about. I suppose it must be traditional by now that...
...much more recent material. Drawings on paper only began around the 14th century. Before that they were done on vellum, as in illuminated manuscripts. One of the chief problems posed by the care of modern drawings (since the 19th century) carries the ominous title of "communicable acid degeneration." Apparently, half-way through the 1800's, when people began cutting down trees instead of using old rags to make paper, the cardboard used to back drawings acquired a highly acid quality. And, like similarly-titled habits of illegal amusement, the degeneration spreads from one member of the team to another...
...Radcliffe College Fund has passed the half-way mark in its attempt to reach a 1977 fundraising goal of $500,000 and the number of alumnae contributing to the Fund also has risen, Fund officials said yesterday...
...Ideally, the probation officer acts as a kind of counselor to the child," Feloney said. "If, over a trial period, this arrangement doesn't work out, then the probation officer refers the child to another agency--say, a half-way house...
Probation, half-way houses, NYPUM, all mark the beginning of a newer and more benevolent mode of dealing with youthful offenders. The emphasis in Massachusetts now is on education, rather than incarceration; on community-based treatment, rather than on training schools...