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...theatre goes black. Out of the silence comes the skirl of a distant bagpipe, growing louder. Hideous orchestral discords intrude. The stage and part of the auditorium fill with mist; and soon we make out a trio of witches, the first asking, "when shall we three meet again?" We settle down, ready to give ourselves over to the wonderfully weird and terrible universe that is Shakespeare's Macbeth...
...Radcliffe girl on the Crimson discovered that diplomas would be written in English for the first time this year and published the story. Immediately petitions were circulating protesting the change, and, when seniors discovered the new-style diploma looked like what they termed "a YMCA certificate," they yelled louder...
...than what language to have on diplomas and by problems perhaps more acute than the mass withdrawal to Washington. Dean Erin N. Griswold of the Law School was troubled most by the Kennedy Administration, which took about one-eighth of his faculty, but even one Harvard dean could complain louder. Don K. Price, Dean of the School of Public Administration, was heard to say that President Kennedy stole 100 per cent of his full-time faculty--i.e. Secretary of the Public Administration Faculty, David Bell, who was named Director of the Budget Bureau...
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing...
...electronic generator that gave out brief bursts of ultrasonic sound-a reasonable imitation of a prowling bat. Even where the man-made beeps were too weak to be detected by man-made microphones, the moth's ear responded with electrical signals. When the imitation bat sounded louder, as if it were closing in, the moth's ear responded more strongly, covering the face of the oscillograph with trains of wiggly warning lines...