Word: pre
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This system of appointment would avoid the chance of the "packed house" which might occur if the Dean were picking his own student advisors, and also evades the possibility of a "closed corporation" of mutual friends such as occurred in pre-war years when the Council chose many of its own members. This appointed advisory board would not be a representative group, but it does not need to be. For it would merely investigate student opinion; it would not purport to represent all students on any matter of University policy...
Vitterie De Siea has grown in distinction as a director of Italian films until he now ranks with pre Stromboli Rossellini. De Siea's "The Bicycle Thief" comes to Boston after being honored as the best foreign film of 1949 by the New York critics, and receiving several other American and European awards. "The Bicycle Thief" is an excellent, occasionally brilliant document of the plight of "the little man." In all the noise about "the world's most acclaimed motion picture," however, one is apt to forget that it has short comings, like most other films...
...Council has recently acquired other functions. The pre-war Council undertook the management of student funds. This led students to demand a greater say in Council policies, and, after much agitation, the formerly appointed body was made an elected group in 1946. Once the Council members were elected by popular vote, their ideas of what they should do changed radically. They had to produce immediate evidence of their public interest to satisfy the constituents. This could best be done by a program of student welfare which had immediate effects. The long range function of counseling the Dean, the effects...
Last week, with a few new grey flecks in his crewcut hair, Baby was in Rio for a relaxing round of cabaret crawls and pre-carnival binges. Lounging in his suite at the Copacabana Palace, he boasted that business was better than ever now that the experts were gone. Actually, by slicing off a couple of his unprofitable enterprises, the U.S. advisers had done him a real service. His assets, he figured, were now higher than they had ever been. Said Baby: "1949 was a good year for me. Gross sales won't be far from $25 million when...
...Pre-medical students were reassured last night that concentration in scientific subjects is neither required nor preferred by medical schools...