Word: performances
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Major stumbling-blocks to men entering retailing are the tough training programs. College graduates recoil at the prospect of six to 18 more months of detailed training during which time they will perform no responsible function, but even business school graduates are required to submit to the technical merchandising instruction...
...Mill Street Athletic Association (Leverett Section) irregularly challenges assorted field hockey teams from women's colleges. Meanwhile, Leverett's Civic improvement Society hastens to perform various necessary odd jobs around the House. Its most recent achievement was to locate the center of the universe outside McKinlock Hall's main entrance...
When Finley speaks of Eliot House it is with affection but this same lightness. "Professors are like theologians," he reflects, "they are detached from College life. It is the House Masters who must perform the duties of the parish priest." There is certainly nothing unusual to Finley's mind about knowing each sophomore as he enters the House. "That's the least a person can do. And if you don't know them after three years, you might as well jump off a bridge or something...
...Newsprint. The Great Northern Paper Co., which produces 34% of the newsprint made in the U.S., announced that it has found a cheap way to make newsprint from hardwood, a trick no other papermaker has been able to perform. Up till now, newsprint has been made from softwood. Great Northern, which owns 14% of Maine's land, including 800,000 acres of hardwood, plans to spend $32 million to expand and to install the new process, boosting its present newsprint production of 377,000 tons a year...
...Field. Perhaps one could point to the occult Rain Dance of the Hopi Indians as the first indication of the new season. But, while rain is a common feature of a Cambridge Spring, Hopi Indians are exceedingly rare, and one could never find enough together at one time to perform their Rain ceremony anyway. Ball bearing planting at the foot of the world tree has become passe. Ordinarily, we could point to the opening of Lincoln Downs as a valid harbinger, but it's too late now--the nags have been running for a week and Clocker Spanielle has already...