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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Opponents of this legitimate cause for compulsory subscription point to Vassar which supports two semi-weekly papers from advertising and circulation revenue alone. But Vassar is strictly a woman's college lacking the large male university with its highly competitive paper that we have next door. Granted the virtues of a daily paper, Radcliffe has neither the news nor the facilities to produce more than a weekly one. Consequently the News is the only possible outlet at Radcliffe for official notices, as well as being the only means--excepting the often inadequate Agassiz boxes--by which the whole college...

Author: By Cynthia Baker, | Title: Compulsory News: Pro, Con | 4/22/1948 | See Source »

Student Council proceedings will be on view tonight to any and all comers when the group holds its semi-annual open meeting at 7:15 o'clock in the Union's Upper Common Room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 3 Problems Face Council Meeting | 4/20/1948 | See Source »

...Dramatic Club's production is competent, considering the circumstances. The actors, almost to a man, indulge in speechifying, varying from tense dramatic whispers to semi-hysterical out-bursts. But such melodramatics seem to be inherent in the play. Similarly, co-directors Roy Erickson and Burt Kelsey have far too often permitted the actors to stand in awkward groups in the canter of the stage. If more imagination had been exerted, more realistic and fluid action could undoubtedly have been devised, but again the basic difficulty seems to lie in the play itself, which handicaps the director by substituting pseudo-eloquence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 4/20/1948 | See Source »

...three dinghy fleet, directed by Commodore Pete Putnam, will skud the white water against Yale in the M.I.T. basin today in the semi-annual Crimson-Eli regatta. Pete Duble ard Charles MacElory will captain the other two crafts for Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sailors Race Yale | 4/17/1948 | See Source »

...success. . . . The Russians are afraid of you and they will go as far as they can until you tell them to stop." But, he added, "the gentlemen in the Kremlin-and some of them are not gentlemen-rather naturally take the view that your policy in international affairs is semi-paralyzed until November. They're gathering rosebuds while they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Gathering Rosebuds | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

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