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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Haines has what he thinks will be a strong boat this year, but just like the varsity hevies' first eight, six of the slides are filled by upstart sophomores who have beaten out two of the four returning lettermen. Stroke Jack Smith and number five Dave Clark are the only returness...
...machetes. During election campaigns, such bloody incidents have been used by politicos to incite violence on a national scale. As their hottest congressional campaign in years moved into high gear last week, sober Colombians were dismayed to see the vicious old cycle repeating itself. In three months, the number of murders attributed to politics had risen to 40. Warned staid El Tiempo: "[Such] violence is the worst thing that can happen in a democratic country...
...Chicago," there is "a certain lack of boldness" on the part of educators. They seem sold on the idea "that every young person has a right to a higher education, irrespective of ability or previous training." And what is the result? A notion, said Beloff, "that the total number of students is more important than the quality of the work done...
...began to run in circles, declaring that Providence had decreed that he was to be buried in that circle (he was soundly trussed up and placed in a wagon). A woman suddenly began to set fire to anything that would burn. Halfway from the Missouri to the goldfields, the number of abandoned wagons increased noticeably. Some of the outfits began to shoot their dogs -the barking caused too many of the travelers' cattle to stampede. But the caravans kept coming...
...course, the number of performers ruled out any possibility for delicate treatment in choral passages. The Mass can be as effective in mightiness as in subtlety, however, if the chorus is well enough trained to execute cleanly the variations in volume derived from the counterpoint itself. The Glee Club and Choral Society were. After the some-what uninspired reading of the Kyrie, in which lone syllables appeared and vanished with no apparent intention, the Chorus climbed to heights of accuracy and cooperation in the Gloria. The "Qui Tollis" was an achievement which is impossible to describe, and the transition without...