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Members of the half-dozen leftist groups which have hitherto dominated University politics, did not seem, however, to share Staples' optimism for the success of the HYRC. When questioned, they rubbed their chins and mused skeptically. "We wonder just how many of these men will be active members and how many will be merely deadwood...
George Walker '51 finally came to the rescue of his drenched entry mates with the hitherto unthought of idea of turning off the sprinkler system from the wall valve...
...Nobles," where sloppy entrances spoiled an otherwise well-sung piece. Bach's "Happy Lovers," victim of an uninspired performance in Sanders, again suffered from a lack of spirit until the final bars. The last selection, a medley of 'Cliffe songs, proved the comedy fare of the evening, as several hitherto unsung gems brought down the house...
...book appeared concurrently with Brooks's wholesale excommunication of modern writers as "defeatists" and "fatalists." Coming from a critic who had hitherto bewailed America's indifference to her contemporary writers, Brooks's charges seemed a betrayal. The little magazines gave him a merciless drubbing, and Critic Edmund Wilson caustically rapped The Flowering for "chortling, beaming and crooning in a manner little short of rapturous over those same American household classics ... whose deficiencies . . . he had [previously] so unflinchingly brought to our notice...
...faded yellow-brick-and-plaster house in Adyar, Maria Montessori is hard at work. She lectures in Italian two or three times a week; Mario translates into English for her. She is surer than ever of one thing: "The child is capable of achieving culture at an age hitherto unsuspected." She now teaches arithmetic at 3½, algebra at five, and finds that eight-year-olds learn algebra quicker than 14-year-olds, for they consider it a game, instead of something to dread. An 18-month-old child, she says, is "perhaps happiest when learning" and every child...