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...extent to which those members of the Faculty associated with the House have taken a keen interest in its welfare has been a further feature of its development. Casting aside the shyness that has forced the tutors in some Houses to band together at meals at a tutors' table, those at Dunster eat invariably with undergraduate friends. The squash courts (of which Dunster has eight of its own) have provided, as well as the dinner table, a battle ground where friendships between Faculty and students have spring from rivalry...
...keen little Japanese general, trim if tubby, bustled about Hongkong last week, the confident swish of his great-coat followed by hate-glinting Chinese eyes...
...belligerent Roman Catholic, anticipated some pyrotechnic digressions, and they were not disappointed. Author Belloc's Milton resounds with Bellockian bellows, on every subject from the present state of the nation to the sniveling rascality of a 17th Century renegade. On Milton the poet he casts a keen professional eye, melting with reverence most often but sometimes, when he catches Milton sporting with a mediocre Muse, sparkling with contempt. To Milton the man he is bluffly antipathetic, regards him as the arch-heretic of an heretical age, a humorless megalomaniac...
...seconds, separating them. Against the Elis, the former set three new dual marks and three new Freshman records. According to Varsity coach Hal Ulen, this meet promises to be as interesting as any held this season in the pool, and there should be many close races with the keen competition likely to bring out better performances than have yet been turned in this year...
...sophisticated and emancipated paper you know damned well that to keep one's Judaism in the background is no evidence of an inferiority-complex, but a keen and necessary political move. For the world is filled with Naziistic persons like the editors of TIME, to whom Jew-baiting gives a sadistic afflatus...