Word: interests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...group, which met for the first time in Adams Upper Common Room, consisted of men recommended by house masters and College deans, and interviewed by David C. Poskanzer '50, committee chairman. Qualifications for selection were "general intelligence" and an interest in College educational problems...
Calling Northside 777 on a hunch of his editor, James Stewart finds a woman who has worked years scrubbing floors to free her jailed, but honest, son. The human interest aspects of this set-up sweep Stewart off his feet and he splashes the Hard-earned Heartaches across Chicago, little believing the son (Conte) is really innocent. Persuaded to dig deeper and talk with the prisoner, Stewart gradually turns from a skeptical, feature-conscious reporter into a citizen grieved by a civic unjustice and turns lower-case handsprings to right the wrong. After pacing the Polish quarter and fondling...
LeCorbeiller, a lecturer in Applied Physics, has managed to combine an "amateur" interest in philosophy with a highly respected knowledge of electric circuit theory. He has come up with a provoking series of predictions in the Atlantic Monthly that have amazed some of his scientific colleagues...
Despite the LeCorbeillers deep interest in General Education the master of the house can easily be distracted. Just confront him with one of two listeners and a black board and both chalk and an excited index finger will start wagging as Philippe LeCorbeiller takes a long, penetrating glance at a world that is a long long...
...fastest. Holding ten regular beer glasses, the jumbo provided a nightly chance to manipulate the esophagus against a stop-watch, and the takers were many. The present record is 2 min. 3 sec. and the contest is still open; but the jumbo is as big as ever. Interest has slackened a bit now the required deposit is up to $5 but the College thirst for beer hasn't diminished. Wartime dissatisfaction with 3.2 sent veterans skipping back to the O.G. and to the jumbo they dreamed of overseas...