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...Ibsen's The Wild Duck, and the Kaufman-Hart comedy You Can't Take It With You. All will be added to the current repertory for the Broadway season next year, if they work. "We are very catholic," says Rabb. "We want a diverse audience, not a select and artsy one. This is not a commercial venture; it is popular theater...
...Edward Lilley, professor of Astronomy, was also skeptical of the Russian claim. Radio astronomers working at the observatory here and at other tracking stations in this country still have not been able to select any validation in the signals from the star. He acknowledged, however, that the Russian data, if sub-sentenced might point to a "significant discovery in radio astronomy...
Classes held on the Friday and Saturday after Thanksgiving have traditionally been held for the benefit of a select few. A University regulation requires, however, that classes be held unless the catalogue describes the course as meeting "at the pleasure of the instructor...
...requirements for most prizes have either remained the same or become more general over the centuries. The James Gordon Bennett Prize of $235 is offered for an English prose essay on "some subject" in American government. In 1895 the candidate had to select a topic such as "The Proper Relation of the United States with Hawaii," or answer a question like "How Should Postmasters Be Selected?" Today, as in 1895, the Sumner Prize has asked for essays dealing with means and measures toward the prevention of war and the establishment of lasting peace...
Confronted with a virtual coup d'etat last month, the HDC membership responded as expected. When five undergraduates announced their self-appointment as a non-elective, self-perpetuating executive committee that would select all mainstage plays, it was a new version of the old nightmare. Faculty influence was suspected: "Chapman and Hamlin are probably behind this, you know;" "The committee will be a pawn of the Faculty within a few years...