Word: halls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...uniform of the day," says Captain Gordon Hall, watching his parka-clad deck crew scramble around on the slippery bow, "is anything to keep warm." It is 0900 hours, with a -15° F wind-chill factor, and the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Mackinaw is about to slip her berth in Sault Ste. Marie. She is headed for Whitefish Bay, a shallow and troublesome body of water leading into the treacherous inland sea that is Lake Superior. In 1975 the ore carrier Edmund Fitzgerald, eulogized by Singer Gordon Lightfoot, was heading for shelter in the bay through a November gale...
...SCENE: St. Andrews University Scotland, during a typically damp, gray Scottish summer in 1974. Having bribed their parents into sending them to Europe by promising to study at a university, 200 American high school students were sitting in a lecture hall awaiting another lecture on British politics. Past lectures given by members of different political parties, cabinet ministries and interest groups had been nowhere near as exciting as the non academic hours the students had spent exploring Macbeth's Glamis castle and the romantic lochs. But the students quickly realized that this lecture would be different...
...second, and most important, consideration is who will replace departing seniors John Heller, John Fishwick, Jeff Secrest and captain John Havens. Although the admissions slips have yet to go out of Byerly Hall, there are several potential members of the Class of '83 who Desaulniers feels have varsity potential. With their arrival and a new team attitued, the now "good" Crimson squash team may once again be "great." SQUASH STATISTICS IVY LEAGUE 1. Princeton 4-0 2. Penn 3-1 3. Harvard 2-2 4. Yale 3-1 5. Dartmouth...
Bonjour, La Bonjour. If you are turned on by sophisticated soap opera--psychological drama to use a more intellectual term--go to the Eliot House dining hall, a psycho-drama in itself, and see Bonjour La, Bonjour...
Director Jeffrey Harper and his cast put on a very creditable production of this difficult play. John Hall as Serge carries the show, convincingly, sounding the depths of his broad part. The other performances range from excellent to mediocre, as they do in most House shows, but overall the production succeeds in portraying a world where incost is not only best, but all there is. If that isn't enough, however, consider your pocketbook--the patrons of the production gave so much money that the show is free...