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...seal of Locke's diploma, now lost, was affixed to a blue ribbon, rather than to the red one of today. Blue and yellow appear to have been the usual color of these bands until the middle of the nineteenth century, when red became the College color as a result of President Eliot's gift of Crimson handkerchiefs to the crew before a Yale race...
...abysmal ignorance about the all important problem of concentration in departments of the University. Having spent all their Freshman year satisfying elementary requirement such as English A and History 1, the students knew comparatively little about the various fields of concentration, or what the departments, had to offer. The result was that the Committee was forced to assume the duties of the Freshman advisers, who should have counseled their advisees earlier in the year...
...committee to find out what Baird Tele vision Ltd. had to offer. Baird was still puttering with mechanical scanners. Fearing the snorts of the committee, Baird sent a frantic SOS to Philo Farnsworth. That tireless young man sped to England and signed a patent lease agreement, with the result that spectators in London's lofty Crystal Palace viewed a fashion show, a horse show, a boxing match, a Mickey Mouse cartoon, all televised from ten miles away. Television passed a gruesome mile stone in Crystal Palace when a technician made some adjustments, fumbled, was electrocuted - television's first...
...bright marital exchanges, puzzled drinking, and Connecticut's best boredom. NOT TOO NARROW . . . NOT TOO DEEP - Richard Sale - Simon & Schuster ($2). What might happen if Charles Rann Kennedy's Servant in the House were put into Stephen Crane's Open Boat with ten escaped convicts. The result will not even please Buchmanites...
...result of this, Mr. Conant, accompanied by Mr. Green, will rush to the Boston broadcasting rooms of station WBZ immediately after the meeting in Cambridge, and Mr. Conant will be forced to repeat his address at 10 o'clock for the benefit of the radio audience. It will be relayed over WJZ, New York, and a nation-wide network...