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Morton G. White, professor of Philosophy and Hum 5 lecturer during the second term, said yesterday that the Committee on Educational Policy approved last year his proposal to suspend lectures in Hum 5 during this term's Reading Period. Sections will meet once during the period to fulfill the old requirement that instruction be given for the full term in freshman courses...
...classic nouns of assemblage--"a gaggle of geese," "a pride of lions"--the English man of words Eric Partridge once added some modern variants--"a column of journalists," "a suavity of diplomats." In terms like these, one formula for a successful musical is a hum of songs and a garter of chorus girls. Winthrop House has combined Leonard Bernstein with Radcliffe, and On the Town results...
Busoti's work is also written for the voice. Miss Berberian is here required to hum, chant and rasp in at least five different languages (she concludes by moaning "Mush, straight ahead, mush") both at the audience and into the occasionally accompanying grand piano. Miss Berberian has one of the few voices I have ever heard that is equal to such a task. Her superb control and truly magnificent versatility enabled her to present a most triumphant reading of this unusually demanding work...
...shape continually. The ground rolls like an ocean swell. The simplest tasks become all but impossible. Victims are unable to sew without making their hand a pin cushion, to peel a potato without cutting it in half, to crack an egg without smashing it. The ears ring and hum...
...Missionary Albert Schweitzer at Lambarene in Gabon on Africa's West Coast might help him sort things out. There the work was backbreaking, but he loved the life; month after month he helped clear jungle thickets and unloaded the heavy supplies that arrived by boat. "Hi ho. ho hum, here I am in the middle of Africa," Mark wrote his mother exultantly, typing out a letter on his portable. "I sit at my desk with my mongrel dog at my left foot, and Ooka, my pet chimpanzee, playing with my shoelaces. A goat is walking on the roof...