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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Near the bottom of the program comes the line "Axel Diensen. . . Alfred Lunt," the first tip-off to the pre-curtain speculator that this might not be the crisp nonsense he expects. Then the curtain goes up and it is clear that Mr. Coward and Mr. Lunt are equally dubious about this Diensen fellow. Diensen, it turns out, is a Minnesota railroad baron who, by the author's admission, doesn't fit into the life of either Boston or Belgrave Square. Diensen doesn't seem at home on the stage of the Colonial either...
...mundane problems of finance have troubled the band before. After the war, for example, when Walter J. Skinner '48 was trying to reorganize the group, its total assets consisted of a few pre-war records. Skinner sold the records for $18, spent this for stationery, and then sent letters to alumni. These resulted in $300, with which Skinner bought more stationery, and he finally got enough money to buy pants. Jackets eventually followed, and ever since, this outfit has comprised the ban's attire...
...collection are upwards of 300,000 pages from unprinted diaries and letters of the Adams family, dating from pre-Revolutionary times through World War I. In addition to the published material, microfilms of the entire collection will be available to serious scholars. Walter M. Whitehill, Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Lowell House and a prime mover of the project, stated that "the first 88 reels will be distributed next week, with the remainder ready about...
...pre-World War I Europe, The Old School Tie is more or less an autobiography of the author's schooling at Cheltenham College and later at Oxford. Tucerkman's parents, especially his father, are presented as archetypes of American tourism in the grand old largesse days. They are the dying generation, the professional travelers, whose era ended in the summer of 1914. Throughout, the rather unpolished symbol of the father's increasing blindness, paralleling the increasing threat of war, attempts to give the book an air of gravity. Yet such devices--and there are many--seem merely pasted...
...that students work off-campus for at least thirty weeks during their college careers. A student may work one summer with a business group, the next with a labor organization, and perhaps the third with a governmental agency, earning course credit for his work. Practical experience in the pre-college years is also a definite factor in the School's admissions decisions...