Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been only nine years since the College cut itself free from the enveloping tentacles of the tutorial schools. Few people now in college realize just how extensive was the influence of these crutches. At one time three-quarters of the student body availed itself of the facilities of professional tutoring. There was no pretense that the "schools" were merely giving occasional assistance to conscientious students having trouble with a particularly hard course. They offered a complete "Harvard" education at a price to fit every pocketbook...
Freshman Coach Warren Berg was also on hand to greet the group, which included nine holdovers from last year's Varsity plus a large turnout from the 1947 jayvee and freshman outfits. He plans to hold another meeting later on for Yardling candidates...
Twin Sisters. The first of Whitehead's 22 books (A Treatise on Universal Algebra) was published in 1898; his final volume (Essays in Science and Philosophy) appeared last year (TIME, May 12). After a nine-year collaboration with his famous pupil, Bertrand Russell, Whitehead wrote the monumental Principia Mathematica (1910). This book approached mathematics not as a science of magnitude but as a science of deduction; it undertook to replace two existing sciences-logic and mathematics-by one new science, mathematical logic. Because Whitehead felt that "conventional English is the twin sister to barren thought" and that words...
...After nine years, it was inevitable that there should be changes among the D'Oyly Carters: new faces; new but in no way newfangled scenery; an orchestra that seemed a bit lacking in volume and verve. But for the most part things remained wonderfully unchanged: this highborn troupe whose ancestors ushered half the Savoy operas into the world has long subdued individual talent to group traditions. At moments their work might seem more traditional than talented; but the D'Oyly Carters remained the most stylish and polished of G. & S. performers, the most grandly operatic as they trilled...
...stars Captain Bob Gale and lanky Ed Peterson, used their respective six-six and six-nine heights to the very best advantage, controlled both backboards most of the evening, and split 36 points evenly between them...