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Painter Evergood, a plump and tweedy 53, looks as quiet and gentle as Hirshhorn does quick and forceful. The impression is false. Manhattan-born Evergood was educated at Eton and Cambridge, but says he "wasn't fitted for that academic rah-rah stuff." He studied art in England, France and the U.S., came into his own with the Great Depression and the W.P.A. His choleric temperament led him to heel far left for a time, made him a top "proletarian painter" of the 1930s...
Ulen, on his part, does not know of a finer man than Brooks. "He's no hot-shot rah-rah guy--he's a solid, patient, teaching coach. There isn't a better man to take over this varsity when the retirement rules get me. Bill's a gentleman, and he knows hs onions...
Undergraduate protest against the All-College Weekend is believed to have caused the financial loss. Many students felt that the All-College Weekend, featuring a formal dance in the IAB, was too "rah-rah" for Harvard...
...sets trite but essential examples of fitness for his team. He neither drinks nor smokes, but nibbles candy bars and drinks coke instead. And although he demands "100 percent effort" on the field, he does not police his training rules. He admits "I don't expect any great rah-rah spirit here, I know the Harvard man wants to have a winning team. At the same time, I know he doesn't want it at the expense of lowered scholastic standards...
...addition the House's Social Committee chairman has called the weekend "un-Harvardian" and "too rah-rah," and has attacked the Crimson Key's administration of the event. "A unified social function for the whole College can be better handled by groups other than the Key," Johnson C. Montgomery '55, committee chairman, asserted...