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Your splendid article on the problems of the commuting student does not mention what seems to me to be an important distinction which is made at Harvard between commuting and resident students. The resident arrives at Harvard for a freshman year centered in the Yard and at the Union. In the former he sleeps, studies, attends classes and bull sessions; in the latter, he eats and finds many of his social contacts: The friendships which he makes in both places are those which tend to determine the pattern of his upperclass years. The commuter, on the other hand...
Above all this floats the music, most of which displays Handel's more fluid, graceful style--the finest example being the superb duet of Arsemene and Romilda. The singers carry out their tasks well; John Leonard and Vivian Thomas produce especially beautiful sounds. Robert Scher deserves special mention for his performance (in a voice which suggests the weight and power of an articulated locomotive) of a song about wine that begins, "This persuasive potable makes your thoughts more quotable...
Honorable mention went to Jane M. Rabb '61, for "Henry James' The Ambassadors: A Work of Art," Thomas D. Hogan, Jr. '61, for "Social and Moral Attitudes of Lewiss Carroll," and Herbert E. Weene '61, for "Verse and Individuality: A Study in Marlovian Characterization...
...while those on the other could keep going until midnight. In 1942, the occupying Nazis proclaimed the whole district to be Dutch, but the very next day they sheepishly withdrew their decree: the two electric systems, the two water systems, the two gas suppliers, not to mention the two town halls and two sets of laws, were just too much to cope with...
Behind the Northern Lights. When Van Allen made his first open report on Explorer IV, he had to avoid all mention of Argus because of military security. But he had plenty to tell about the natural radiation. He could say with assurance that a human satellite crew exposed to maximum Van Allen radiation for a few days would surely die. It looked as if the fierce particles, which slam close to the earth in the auroral regions, were the explanation of the ancient mystery of the northern lights...