Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blame for this situation must rest on the College and House administrations, which have come to assume that the Committees will bear part of the financial burden. If certain facilities, in addition to bed, board, and plumbing, are important for House living, their cost should be met by University funds rather than by donation. Meanwhile, House Committees must resort to begging until provided other income for their work...
...coming back to a different world. Inflation has changed to recession; the unassailable Eisenhower is under heavy assault; big talk of economy has changed to big talk of defense spending; and the air of smug superiority has yielded to the very real threat of Russian technological leadership. Before it met, the new session had a nickname: "The Sputnik Congress." And it had a too obvious political motivation: laying out party lines for the congressional elections next November...
Married. Mattiwilda Dobbs, 32, coloratura soprano of the Metropolitan Opera, second Negro woman (the first Marian Anderson) to sing at the Met; and Bengt Janzon, 44, public-relations director of the Royal Opera, Stockholm; both for the second time; in Manhattan...
...next day, the same two teams met again, and this time the varsity played its best game of the trip, losing 3-2 in over-time. Harry Pratt played the whole game in goal for the varsity and played some very good hockey for the rest of the games...
...cult's early exciting days its devotees expected that a great spirit was about to be reincarnated. Mrs. Annie Besant-Socialist, organizer of the Theosophical Society, and pal of Bernard Shaw -undertook to conjure up the great spirit. He was an Indian named Krishnamurti. When Emy met him, it was a case of love at first sight-and of mistaken identity. She can write today: "I who am not in the least clairvoyant could see the face of the Lord through the face of Krishna...