Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miss Dot Holz of the Student Employment Office admitted that she preferred local talent to that of any other college, but skirted around the subject by saying that she really was much more interested in getting "a four or five room unfurnished apartment than a Harvard man." But when pressed, she consented to specify what type of man need apply: "Crew hair-cuts and bow-ties are definitely out," she said. "I like tall, blond-haired men that wear tweeds and smoke pipes...
...same subject, Miss Bunny Enright of the Veteran's Book Office expressed her liking for the "gentleman-scholar type," defining him as one who wears grey flannels and shirts with button-down collars...
...Miss Enright, an ex-model who claimed she was placed at Harvard by her secretarial school, warmed up somewhat more on the subject of college men. "Certainly, I would rather date Harvard men," she said. "They have such variety--they're men of distinction, like the Lord Calvert ads. They have that certain sureness that other men lack...
When a track coach loses a potential national intercollegiate champion through premature war service graduation, and still gets eight hours sleep a night, it is time to examine the rest of his team. Varsity mentor Jaakko Mikkola will miss javelin thrower Dave Murray this spring. He will have other headaches too, trying to strengthen the sprint department. But overbalancing these defects is the apparent overall depth of the team. The Varsity squad which emerged from Briggs Cage two weeks ago is virtually the same one which grabbed fourth place in the indoor IC4A meet earlier this month and which throttled...
...still another story, "The Secret," by Miss Ann Allison, everything is there but that final coherence which makes a story come together. It is written well, and with a feeling for character and mood, but it seems to have Implications. Nothing is wrong with Implications, except when it isn't clear what they imply. This adolescent profundity produces the most irritating literature known to man, and "Radditudes" should put up a special mechanism to keep it out. It is a constant threat in the March issue. Especially in the poetry...