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Under the new lenient regulations, students will undoubtedly cut their classes before and after the Thanksgiving holiday. Let us hope this will not mean the return of stringent regulations on vacation cuts, of monitorships, and of the other accoutrements of schoolboy disciplinarianism. The solution lies not through the chastisement of students, through turning the colleges into a concentration camp, but through the remodelling along modern and logical lines of the vacation itself, making it last from Thanksgiving through the next week...
Even those who fail to appreciate him admit that Roy Harris has worked like one possessed. His first compositions were as crude as a schoolboy's but within three years he had written an Andante which was performed at the Philharmonic Stadium concerts. That was followed by a Guggenheim Fellowship which gave him two years' study in Paris. There he picked up sophisticated technique but he kept his drive and a bit of the ungainliness which he has never quite outgrown. Luck was with him when rich Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge sponsored his chamber music, when her imports...
Ford has moved over to fill the vacancy and has thus made way for his former schoolboy teammate, Leo Ecker. Ecker was the starting right half against Brown and looked like the finest addition the Harvard backfield has received since quarterback Tommy Bilodeau returned to service after a lengthy ailment...
...these changes lies at right half back. George Ford was not used yesterday. It begins to look as if his old schoolboy teammate, Ecker, might beat him in the race for this...
Three days prior to the anniversary celebration, King Fuad's son, solemn Crown Prince Farouk, 15, said good-by to his four small sisters, left the royal palace at Alexandria to be trained as a British army cadet at Woolwich. Few schoolboys ever had a more impressive sendoff. At Ras-et-Tin Palace, British High Commissioner Sir Miles W. Lampson was on hand for a farewell handshake, a bit of fatherly advice. In a glittering barouche behind an escort of Egyptian lancers the dark-skinned youngster drove through the streets of Alexandria to the quayside where he boarded...