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...appeared inappropriate: a preference for musicals composed by undergraduates but possessing few other virtues once nearly drove Grant-in-Aid out of business. Now they have settled for the solider stuff of Broadway musicals; they sponsor an auction of things forgotten and unclaimed; they even (alas) run the freshman mixer. Held against the grey formality of the Financial Aids Office, their fund looks filled with life and color; it is eminently worth preserving...
...himself as the archetypal kid brother. He was 16 years younger. He adored "Stein," as he called him. And he took naturally to Stein's patronizing pontifications on how to do anything, from landing a fish to landing a woman, and was happy to serve as batman, drink mixer, errand boy and good listener whenever the Great Man felt the urge. His book about his brother is not really a biography. But as a chronological series of personal memories, plus cullings from Hemingway's letters, it adds some warm flesh tones to the growing picture of the supersensitive...
...little learning is a dangerous thing. In his new book, Campus U.S.A., David Boroff shows the effects of trying to apply a smattering of knowledge to an extremely difficult task. Armed with snatches of conversation overheard at the NYU faculty mixer, Boroff analyzes 10 American colleges, some great and some ungreat, and comes to several shattering inconclusions...
...arguments for PT are that it provides a social milieu for those who do not have the comradeship of prep school associations and that it may provide a compulsory break in study for those who drive themselves to overwork. It certainly seems a curious sort of year-long social mixer, and an equally curious way of protecting people from themselves. Perhaps there is something to this kind of defense, but even if proven, it would only have begun to justify the requirement. As it is, PT is nasty, brutish, and nowhere near short enough...
...mixer for Scotch whisky called, surprisingly enough, Scotch water. Canned from springs on the Scottish east coast, near Forfar, the soft water is the same as that used in the whisky itself, is being shipped to the U.S. by Lambs Strathmore Springs...