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...rights for the undergraduate: a guarantee that the students' voice shall be heard on important issues of University policy. The Council evidently has started out with this admirable purpose; the idea was that "protest" groups, springing up whenever the tenure of a valued teacher is threatened, are a haphazard method at best. However healthy it is that they should arise, their effectiveness is sure to be hurt because they are locking the stable door after the horse, in the form of a brilliant educator, has already departed along with his horse sense. Quite obviously the Council's committee must function...
Last week New York Ranger Coach Frank Boucher had some hot words for these million-odd rink-siders. Few of them, said he, knew what the world's fastest game was all about. To most of them hockey was a haphazard free-for-all in which someone occasionally slammed the puck into the net. Advised he: "Forget about the puck for a while and watch the way attack and defense form." To the average fan, this was a counsel of perfection. So fast is hockey that players have to make their snap decisions while spurting 30 ft. a second...
...shiny Rolls-Royce that won't run. Carried in its cast is a selection of Hollywood's most polished performers-'Robert Benchley, Walter Brennan, Helen Broderick, Franchot Tone. But their efforts to keep the aimless, insipid Richard Connell-Gladys Lehman screen play afloat are like the haphazard courage of doomed men. Benchley as a widower highschool principal with three lightheaded daughters (Deanna, Anne Gwynne, Ann Gillis) looks as if he were trying to get by unrecognized. Since there is no observable plot, the rest of the characters just meander around the Benchley household, where Brennan, the village...
...haphazard operation is Quiz the Scientist. The five or six questions discussed on the program are selected well in advance, and board members often write out their answers to make sure they won't fall into high-toned scientific lingo that would baffle the average listener. Inveterate ad libber is impish Dr. Wood, who likes to preface thoughtful discussions of taste with such of his verses as: "Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet and skunks are-phew...
...haphazard noisemakers are Britain's wailing sirens. Sounded by air pressure operating on electric oscillators, they produce a discord which in the Middle Ages was regarded as the work of the devil. This discord is the augmented fourth (example: C and F sharp on the piano), was called the tritone because it spans three whole tones. The tritone was banned in sacred music, thus giving rise to a maxim: Mi contra fa est diabolus in musica (The tritone is the devil in music). When the sirens, beginning on a sweet major third or fifth, slip up and down into...