Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Addressing a crowd of several hundred students and clergy at B.C., the poet, now 70, read selections from poems written during different stages of his career...
...last night's Student Council meeting, Council President Marc E. Leland '59 read a letter from PBH president Richard E. Rubenstein '59 stating that PBH would be too busy with other activities to coordinate the drive. At Leland's suggestion, vice president Paul E. Freehling '59 moved that the Council run the drive, and that the President appoint a chairman for the campaign. The motion carried unanimously...
...still the most demanding and sophisticated of all quiz shows. She still could lose all if (very unlikely) she tied in 14 games and then crashed in a 21-0 defeat. Boning up for Twenty One ever since she got on its stand-by list last July ("I read atlases, memorizing capitals, rivers, all kinds of things"), Elfrida left her well-paid job as personnel manager of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants when she really got rolling on the show...
...defeated a scheme to use churches as schools to get around the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling against segregation in the public schools. They voted 288 to 124 against a well-organized minority drive to abolish the denomination's anti-segregation-minded Council on Christian Relations, then read into the record a ringing statement on race...
...antiquities, painting and sculpture, I don't look upon to be the most useful knowledge to anybody." As an example to the youths, Sarah cited the case of a Frenchman of "about three score," then in England, "who has learned in [only] a year's time to read all the English authors, and both to write and speak English: his name [Sarah happens to mention] is Voltaire...