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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most numerous of major crimes at Harvard are suicides. In fact, Dr. William D. Temby, University Health Services psychiatrist who is studying the problem of suicide, stated that Harvard students are killing themselves off at a rate of about 3 every two years. Since 1936, when health records began to be kept diligently, there have been 34 suicides among Harvard students...
Temby's statistics reveal a startling fact: Harvard students kill themselves one and one half times as fast as Yalies. Although he admits that New Haven record-keeping may be to blame, figures show that the Sons of Eli decrease at a rate of about one per year. One psychiatrist reported that the highest suicide rate is not in the Ivy League at all, but at Tokyo University, were the harakiri cult is lived to the hilt...
Goldovsky is a staunch advocate of performing foreign operas in English. I have come around to his view-point, but only in regard to comic opera. I still feel the advantages of doing tragedy in the original are unassailable. At any rate, Ory is being done in a colloquially up-to-date and often witty rhymed English translation by Robert A. Simon. And the diction of the singers is surprisingly good...
...only tall man on the team is 6 ft., 8 in. Griff McClellan, last year's second-string center. McClellan has undeniable potential, but at present lacks sufficient speed, mobility, and poise to be a first-rate center. Nonetheless, he has looked fairly impressive in practice sessions thus far and should improve as the season progresses...
There is little doubt that the country has suffered from a stalemate in recent years. The rate of industrial growth (the index of industrial production in the year 1957 was 384: base--1950=100) has tended to fall off during the last two years while agricultural production showed no increase. These, among other factors, were responsible for a widespread feeling within Pakistan against the ineffectiveness of the then governments and the welcome accorded to the Revolution...