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...Wendell still rules with the air of a cultured coach, still inviting the new boys out for a Sunday picnic, still setting "surprise holidays" whenever his whim dictates, still keeping pace with The Hill's old motto-"Whatsoever things are true." But last week, Headmaster Wendell announced that he wanted to change his job. He thought a younger man should take over, so that he could devote his full time to building The Hill's financial future. His plans for the future are in line with everything he has always worked for-a still broader scholarship program, additional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Hill at 100 | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

...most discussed exhibition in Italy last week was of 94 landscapes and cityscapes signed "Francesco Torri." It was not the quality of the paintings that made talk, though they were pretty good. Unpretentious sketches of pleasant spots for a picnic or an apéritif, the canvases were simple in composition and glowing in color. They were the work of a man, one critic had averred, "who knows his trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Tower Builder | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

...weekend will also appear on the questionnaire, asking for approval, objections, and comments. Activities now listed include a tea dance, buffet supper, and evening at the Brattle Theatre for Friday; a formal dinner at Moors and the class dance combined with the regular spring formal Saturday; and a picnic to Crane's Beach Sunday. Last year only 50 couples attended to separate senior class formal dance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Weekend Plans Hinge on Senior Vote | 11/7/1950 | See Source »

...Boston, the Academic Moderne school is sponsoring special Hallowe'en dances tonight and tomorrow night for dateless Dartmouth men. Both start at 8 o'clock. The Academic is at 25 Commonwealth Ave. Winding up the weekend's events, for anyone still standing, will be a DOC sponsored picnic at Wellesley tomorrow noon. The Picnic starts at Wellesley's Beebe Hall...

Author: By Hugh B. Johnson, | Title: Green Key Sets Wild Indian Influx Plans | 10/28/1950 | See Source »

Nothing Violent. Some of the Addams humor is relatively mild, e.g., the picnic that is invaded by man-sized ants, the cannibal who murmurs his excuse for not eating: "Oh, I like missionary, all right, but missionary doesn't like me." In some of the others, a deeper flavor of misanthropy seeps through. In one cartoon of this sort, a nurse is simply pushing a pram which is fitted with thick steel bars in front of-whatever is inside. In another, as a man is carried away in the talons of a great bird, his wife runs after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Satan's Little Acre | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

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