Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scheduling of this type has been attempted unsuccessfully in the past. Fox blamed the earlier failures on the "short-sightedness" that marks Harvard dramatics. In January, the Inter-House Drama Committee tried to set up a schedule for Spring play activities in the Houses, but the conflicting productions of last weekend witness the shortcomings of this effort...
...past years this student-chartered flight has encountered opposition from the University Travel Company, with whom it competes for student European travel bookings. Edward Bloomberg, president of the company, said yesterday that he resents the present flight "because the HSA is supposed to give preference to Harvard Square Agencies." Salomon, however, made the chartering arrangements for the trip late this fall before he joined...
...past, the Sloan Foundation, established by a former president of General Motors, has used its grants to further science and mathematics only on the college and graduate level. According to Keppel, this is probably the first time that a Sloan grant has been awarded primarily to aid secondary school instruction...
...Brien Nicholas '59, performed an aria in Bach's Cantata No. 41 with a freshness and grace which excelled even her own past performances. The other soloists, Thomas Beveridge '59, Ruth Oeste '58, and Karl Dan Sorensen, also possess very fine voices. The only villains of the evening were the trumpets, particularly the second, who came near to turning the Bach into a shambles...
...student wanting to leave Harvard in the past was not considered "unusual" at all. In fact, the University once provided an institutionalized program for this. The Harvard term for time spent on a leave of absence is still "rustication." This term has its origins in the nineteenth century, when Harvard owned a farm in Concord where people taking a leave from college could work. The farm is no longer available, but the student wishing to leave is still very much a part of Harvard...