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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there is one thing that even the most responsible students can not be trusted to do--control themselves in the presence of women during the evening. The Administration feels that when boys and girls get together, unchaperoned, in a dark, moonlit room, then wild passions and jungle instincts will prevail. Thus, although students may host women in their rooms from 4-7 p.m. every weekday, nights are another thing entirely. Even on Friday, women must be on their way by 8 p.m., which gives a normal person hardly enough time to digest dinner...
...Loeb Drama Center will be the subject of a Student Council forum in the Adams House Common Room at 8 p.m. tonight. Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, will be among the four panelists...
...reappraisal. One famed fellow recalls that his pre-Casbah world had shriveled to six friends with the same opinion. At his first Casbah meal, he was plumped down with a sociologist, a historian and a literary critic. "That first luncheon," he said, "was like opening windows in a stuffy room." Equally impressive is Yale Neurosurgeon Karl Pribram's summation. For him the Casbah's value lay as much in a personal boost as in other people's ideas. "You have no administration, no classes, no students. You can evaluate your own work in terms of your...
Before a game, Schwartzwalder gives his team a mild tongue-lashing as a stimulant but avoids oldtime histrionics. "If Knute Rockne came into my locker room and gave one of his fight talks, the kids would laugh him right out of the place," he says. "You can't fool them. When I was a player, Greasy Neale tried to tell us three weeks running to go out and win the game for his dying mother. And there she was every game, sittin' up in the stands...
...vice president in 1943. ¶ Hugh William Close Jr., 39, son-in-law and assistant to the late Elliott White Springs (TIME, Oct. 26), was elected president of the Springs Cotton Mills (1958 net sales: approximately $165 million). Close joined Springs Mills, Inc. as a sample-room employee in 1946, after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton business school and carrier duty in the Navy, married the boss's daughter the same year. Colonel Springs, after the death of his only son, groomed Close to be his heir...