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...total of 2,652 Summer School students passed the warm months in Cambridge, studying for hour exams and rushing in Lament to keep cool. While footloose Harvard vacationers spent the summer girdling the globe, the large crop of summer scholars (about half of whom were from Harvard and Radcliffe) kept Cambridge busy during the School's eight-week sessions...
...total of 2,652 Summer School students passed the warm months in Cambridge, studying for hour exams and rushing in Lament to keep cool. While footloose Harvard vacationers spent the summer girdling the globe, the large crop of summer scholars (about half of whom were from Harvard and Radcliffe) kept Cambridge busy during the School's eight-week sessions...
Farmers' Lament. Some of the rainmakers themselves hesitate to claim positive results from their efforts. Operating in the same touchy area where Irving Langmuir started, New York's Dr. Howell was warned that if he talked too much about dumping rain on the watersheds New York City might be sued by outraged farmers and resort owners in the Catskills. Until a fortnight ago he never mentioned his results. Then he cautiously admitted that his efforts had produced "a certain amount" of rain. In the same breath he suggested that on some occasions they might also have lessened...
...their periodic thrusts at sin, the county sheriff's men raided a joint outside Houston last week, hauled away two strippers named Margie Lament, 33, and Mitzi Wright, 27, and charged them with indecent exposure. In court, the girls put up an unusual defense: it simply wasn't true that they had performed without panties or bras, because their union (the A.F.L. American Guild of Variety Artists) wouldn't permit such things. Verdict: not guilty. Grateful Margie and Mitzi gave the jury passes to the show. Next night, all six jurors went...
...people like to take exams; and less enjoy correcting them. Professors and their assistants continually lament that they must give examinations and place a letter next to every student's name. But these examinations have become an important part of a student's life. In large, impersonal courses, exams alone determine grades; these grades are crucial for honor degrees and admission to graduate schools. As long as marks have such an important role, professors and instructors who correct exams cannot let their boredom with their work interfere with a thorough job on the bluebooks...