Word: seniors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...James '45, the skits will feature the traditional "Upper Common Room Blues," with Miss Cathy McGuire and Miss Anna Prince, both Radcliffe '46, relieving the monotony of an otherwise all-male cast. Raphael Demos, associate professor of Philosophy, and Richard B. Schlatter '34, faculty instructor in History and Senior Tutor in Adams House, will also take part in the presentation...
With the music from the sensational Senior Dance still in our ears, we are all attempting--still--to be fascinated by the oil business, and prepare for the prelude to the kiss-off (hereafter referred to as the K.O.) in Fuel Studies. The breaks seem to be all going our way, though, as the report in Sources was shifted to Monday instead of Saturday--giving us the week-end to write the report...
...Mary Whitehouse, the youngest passenger ever flown across the North Atlantic route by the Air Transport Command, exhibited a placid, healthy interest in her toes. Much less sure of himself, Father Whitehouse delayed seeing his wife, headed straight for his mother's three-room apartment. Startled, Mrs. Whitehouse Senior remarked "Well, I didn't expect this kind of Christmas present." Then she added: "But I'm not ashamed. Most boys would have run away...
...scientists, Sir Arthur was affectionately known as the senior partner in the firm of "Eddington & [Sir James] Jeans, Interpreters of the Universe." Shy, neat, reed-nosed Sir Arthur looked precisely like the British university don he was, and he discoursed on his cosmic subject with a wit and clarity rare among scientists. He set down in brook-clear language a masterly simplification of Einstein's theory of relativity, spent most of his life explaining the enigmas of abstract science for the benefit of laymen (The Nature of the Physical World, The Expanding Universe). He enlivened these lessons with attempts...
...years after leaving Oxford, Johnson married a widow 20 years his senior. When his mother objected, Samuel replied: "I have told her the worst of me; that I am of mean extraction; that I have no money; and that I have had an uncle hanged. She replied that she valued no one more or less for his descent; that she had no more money than myself; and that, though she had not had a relation hanged, she had 50 who deserved hanging." The Johnsons settled in London, were happy when they could see "three dinners ahead." Young Johnson wrote poems...