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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Miss Canty was generally very well liked around the department, they said, because she was "usually cheerful and friendly," although they remembered that she often had unusually bad moods. A close friend also reported that she had known Miss Canty to make up several "tall stories about people," among them one about an imaginary brother-in-law. The friend said that Miss Canty later told how the "brother-in-law" had been killed in an auto accident...
...Council failed to reach agreement on one aspect of the report, which urged that the Masters participate in the nomination of candidates for the Permanent Class Committee. According to this suggestion, each Master would nominate four men who normally would be unwilling to "engage in what often becomes a purely political contest...
Therefore, the Crimson's top two men had tough matches and often lost, while the bottom of the team was only mildly tested. The varsity's victories down south came mainly on the basis of depth: against Presbyterian on Friday, the Crimson dropped first and second singles and first doubles, and then swept the remaining six matches...
Thomas Whitbread publishes seven of his poems, poems that give a tolerant and patient look at life and nature, a look simply and often beautifully expressed. Whitbread's work has a raffish, sentimental quality about it; the poetry dotes on objects familiar to everyone, and a reader is not ashamed to chuckle and sigh along with the poet. Among the seven, "To a Doting Parent" is the most light-hearted, "Hill" the most serious. The former, set in staccato three-line stanzas and concluding with a jolly exhortation, "So cram your baby full of candy:/What quicker way to make...
...Publishing several examples of a poet's work seems like a much better idea than a former Advocate one, that of printing small snatches of many poets, often not too good. With Whitbread, as with Stephen Sandy in an earlier issue, this new notion has worked out well...