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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...indulging itself in four whole days of decent movies this week. Beginning today and running through Saturday, the management will present eight films, two a day, ranging from eminent oldsters to recent box-office successes...
Outing Club officials start a spring term membership drive tomorrow to swell the group's present 220 man roster. Club officers are at present planning a new spring program of cave exploring and mountain climbing trips to attract new members...
...says Graham Greene in Why Do I Write? (just published in Britain by Percival Marshall), "that one privilege [the writer] can claim, in common perhaps with" his fellow human beings, but possibly with greater safety, is that of disloyalty ... I belong to a group, the Catholic Church, which would present me with grave problems as a writer if I were not saved by my disloyalty ... There are leaders of the Church who regard literature as a means to one end, edification. That end may be of the highest value, of far higher value than literature, but it belongs...
...York attorney was one of 50 prominent lawyers present at a session concerning "Harvard Research in International Law." A University official stated last night that the meetings would continue despite his death...
Latin and Greek are worthwhile studies for English concentrators, but other fields are equally worthwhile. History, Government, and modern languages, for example, are certainly as vital to most present English honors candidates as the classics. Unfortunately, the English Department's honors system isn't based on modern times. It harks back to the days when Latin and Greek were about the only non-scientific fields in the academic world...