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Both of the House basketball events were very one-sided, especially the Winthrop-Dudley contest. High scorer for the Puritan five was Bruce Smart, while Thayer Drake played an excellent defensive game...
...losing side Mac Broderick showed considerable skill at left guard both on the defensive and offensive. Chief handicap of the Deacon five was their man to man defense, which was not sufficiently polished to stand up against the Puritan attack...
Standouts for the Puritans were Jim Faust and Dave Loring, who between them accounted for the majority of the Winthrop tallies. Faust was a particular aid to the Puritan cause with his accurate long shots...
Nothing comparable has been achieved since. The University must learn that the theatre cannot "thrive on frustration." It must be nurtured by adequate drama courses, by an endowed college theatre, by an attitude that actively reverses the former Puritan ideas. The first two of these goals can only be realized after the war, but it is not too early to start on the last...
Thus begins, says Miss Mead, the typical American race for success. Success, not class, she insists, is the American standard of a man's value, rooted deeply in the Puritan belief that toil and struggle are the proper works of man. "In his parents' every gesture, the child learns that although they want to love him very much . . . they are not quite sure that he will deserve it, that when they check him up against the baby book and the neighbors' baby, he will come out A-1 and so worthy of complete, blind love...