Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today, public fancy has turned to classical and pre-classical styles. Ever since World War II, the directors of Milan's huge (cap. 3,200) La Scala have tried to find a showcase for small-scale operas. First they bought property directly behind the stage, on the Via dei Filodrammatici (Street of the Amateur Actors), where once the carriages of the great prima donnas were parked. Plans were made to remodel a small apartment building into a tiny theater. Eventually, after five years of labor and some half a million dollars, La Piccola Scala (cap. 600) was finished...
Over New Year's weekend the Crimson skiers placed sixth out of eight teams in the pre-season Intercollegiate Meet at Lyndonville, Vt. Pete Churchill took eighth in the jumping with a 105.8-foot average. Hanson Robbins placed 15th, Joe Poindexter and Curt Beebe placed 31st and 32nd respectively...
Last week's population, smaller than usual because of pre-Christmas discharges, included 18 women, 13 of them housewives, as well as a stenographer, a telephone supervisor, a clerk, an artist and one unemployed; among the eight men were two mechanics, a cleaner, a hairdresser, a steel inspector and three unemployed. Their illnesses range from the commonest neuroses to severe psychoses. The decision as to whether a patient can be admitted and effectively treated is made not on the basis of a diagnostic label, but on whether he or she is too disturbed, and thus likely to disturb others...
According to president Robert H. Neuman '58, the Harvard Pre-Law Society, the first organization of its kind in the College, will attempt to clarify for the potential law student the situation in law school and in the profession itself...
...whom were not members of these organizations, e.g., 1200 from France, 1300 from Great Britain, 4000 from the Scandinavian countries, and a delegation from Japan representing 600,000 people from almost every major youth organization. The activities of the Festival included cultural competitions, performances of top young artists, a pre-Olympic sports competition, and exhibitions of life in every country...