Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past few years become increasingly interested in the study of a boy, not as a purely physical entity, but as an integrated personality. As cases poured into the psychiatric and medical departments, it became evident that they were getting a very one-sided picture of college life--were completely concerned with the outlook of the maladjusted boy full of miscellaneous terrors, real or imagined injustices, and evils of every sort. Thousands of others, well-adjusted to their environment, never were contacted; and to get their side of the picture, to have a better basis from which to analyze the misfit...
...first year has now ended. Behind the walls of the much renovated Big Tree Swimming Pool are masses of facts and figures on almost every phase of life of some 80 normal boys. A thorough medical examination, registration of metabolism and fatigue tests, an anthropological examination,--all these were part of the survey of the physical side. On the mental side, investigations of the boy's genealogy and of his home, religious, sex, and academic life were correlated to produce a fairly accurate, if somewhat superficial, knowledge of his mental make-up. Results and conclusions of the survey will...
...band is the Ella, or "Tisket A Tasket" Fitzgerald. Ella, besides being a nice kid personally, is a real showman and a marvelous singer. Heard her do an item, "Chew, Chew-something or other, which brought three encore demands from the crowd solely on the basis of the life that she put into the thing. Eila's singing is a lot like a good "dig" tenor sax player: she sings most of her licks ahead of the beat, so that you get a drive effect which packs power in quantity. Result is that she is just about the back-bone...
Lewis' own idea about the sex life of the Harvard undergraduate is that too often he sets out in quest of amorous adventures according "to some preconceived hard-and-fast theory, too frequently grounded on the exaggerations and distortions of other undergraduates boasting in bull sessions...
Star number one is Hildegarde, who has been on the cover of Life and in the columns of Time magazine of late, besides finding time to do a radio program known as "Ninety-Nine Men and a Girl." In addition to her singing, which Time aptly termed "singing like Garbo looks," she is an excellent pianist and plans to do some double piano work while up here...