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...handsome lord and an innocent miller's daughter, a doubtful marriage, a father's curse, a self-sacrificing lover, an heroic halfwit, and-a happy ending. Flitting in and out of the story is Pittances Green, clown extraordinary, whose puns and drolleries, no less than his outlandish costumes, lighten the play tremendously. The versatile Phillip Bourneuf plays the part to perfection...
...least one of the features that makes Harvard an intellectually stimulating college persists in the Summer School. A variety of programs, lectures, concerts, and entertainment lighten the summer, and this year more than ever before diversion of a high calibre has been brought to students without expense...
Last week the Harvard Crimson headlined the news that curricular changes announced for Phillips Academy, Andover, forecast curricular changes for Harvard. Next autumn Andover will lighten its emphasis on modern and ancient languages, increase it on history, mathematics and science. The Crimson assumed that Andover's curriculum is based upon Harvard requirements. Ergo, Harvard would change too. Harvard officials quickly disabused the Crimson editors of their notion...
...overcoming another outworn prejudice it seems that the Athletic Association should be able to bring about a more intensive use of the gymnasium, lighten the individual financial cost and at the same time increase their own receipts...
...recommendation that the number of needy men admitted to college be limited in order to lighten the burden of worry and overwork which is now being carried by students is made today by Russell T. Sharpe '28, secretary for Student Employment, in an article appearing in the Atlantic Monthly entitled "College and the Poor Boy." By the extension of such a plan of limitation, he believes that although the gap between public and private institutions of higher learning may be widened, the state universities may be brought to introduce a large number of practical courses for those...