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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...passing reference to "those would-be wreckers of Ulster's constitution who have thrown themselves with fanatical zeal into a campaign which has touched new depths of mendacity." He added that these people had reached "a maximum of vilification and a minimum of veracity." Sir Joseph Davison, Grand Master of Orangemen, went even farther in the direction of peace. He left all mention of Catholics out of his written speech, and merely interpolated a verbal warning: "And we must ever be on the alert against the threat of rule by Popery...
Pechet's statement came in answer to the request last week of almost half of Lowell's 300 diners that the no-coat-removal be repealed. He quoted House-master Elliott Perkins '23, who specified that the dining hall was a place for gentlemen to gather...
...attributing of "sexiness" to Gounod, that master of banality in music, shows a lack of discernment somewhere. Cesar Franck, a devout Catholic, wrote music whose sensuality is unsurpassed in the late romantic era. His models were Liszt and Wagner, both of whom did their level best to transfer their sexual emotions to music. But who knows that the Bach fugues that some consider so dry and pedantic at this time were not the height of voluptuousness when they were created? And Mozart, who so often is accused of superficiality, was in a sense the Wagner of his time, only...
Mbonu Ojike spent seven years in the U.S. and returned to his native Nigeria in 1946 with a master's degree from the University of Chicago and a liberal education in race relations. As a writer, Mbonu has not taken as well to English. Yet as a study in African pride v. U.S. prejudice, this book has its amusing moments, mostly from Author Ojike's ingenuous tilting at some sacred U.S. windmills...
...third House dining hall, Lowell conservatism made heat wave diners wear coats to meals, but not neckties. A House order, signed by House master Elliot Perkins '23, described coats as that "type of garment normally so defined in adult society...