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Among the University alumni scheduled to speak will be James P. Baxter, now president of Williams College. Baxter was formerly a professor of History and master of Adams House. Having spent several weeks in Britain during the past summer, and thus having witnessed the effects of the British war effort, he will speak on "England in War Time...
Other speakers will be Richard C. Harlow, head coach of football, Donald Forte '43, captain of the football team, and Richard C. Floyd '10, president of the Club, who will be master of ceremonies...
Bojangles Bill Robinson, past master of the soft shoe routine, packed the Hasty Pudding Club last night in a show for the Naval Training School. There was standing room only in the auditorium as 400 Navy men and their guests watched Bill take time off from his stint at the Mayfair to entertain with his inimitable tapping...
Novelist Angela Thirkell has achieved a devoted readership by reducing the English novel to a humorous commentary on almost complete inaction. Like her master, Anthony Trollope, whose literary landscape (Barsetshire) she has borrowed for her own books, Novelist Thirkell's world is timeless, cloudless, windless. Practically the only motion is that of the British gentry and middle classes pouring tea. Practically the only sound is the titters, snickers and snorts of confirmed Thirkell readers at the foibles of familiar Thirkell characters...
...happens at Harvard to these men who are able, but who have in many cases no formal education." Chosen by their unions without regard to scholastic attainments, the men vary in their training from a few who left school at the age of 12 to one who has a Master of Law degree...