Word: minors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...done little to cool the ardor of the Administrative Board for enforcing the Faculty Policy of compulsory war service credits. Dean Hanford and his assistants have bent backwards enough to recognize the advisability of granting requests to drop credits for basic or boot training; but on top of that minor concession they have started to apply the pressure of officialdom to those men who have not yet submitted their form 100's or equivalent Navy chits on service "education...
...band." Malcolm H. Holmes '28, dean of the New England Conservatory of Music and a band associate since his undergraduate days, plans to add well known classical scores to its repertoire. The "Orpheus Overture," Rossint's "William Tell Overture," and possibly Bach's difficult "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" will see production...
...into the dining hall. Except for that lone daring experiment, Yardlings have been forced to face up to inflationary restaurant prices if they wish to dally over their dessert with a girt. Confronted by an apparently arbitrary union policy, students are irritated by other inconveniences caused by eating out, minor inconveniences that would be overlooked if there was any sound reason for the Union's all-male atmosphere...
Beginning with the early colonial period, Mr. Schlesinger traces the evolution of manners. He describes the "minor morals" attitude of the earliest mentors, when American manners formed an adjunct to law and social structure, and punishment was swift for makers of ugly faces. With the Revolution and rise of republicanism, however, Mr. Schlesinger professes to see in manners the effort of common people to reach equality--a levelling process. A new conception of manners as a set of specific injunctions to be memorized developed, and a steady stream of manners books was demanded by the etiquette-hungry American people...
...Picasso's 31 illustrations, on exhibition in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week, proved again his capacity for contradicting himself and making it stick. All 31 etchings (reinforced with aquatint) were reasonably naturalistic and most of them were minor masterpieces as well...