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Rusty (whose own never-beaten varsity eight whipped the Red rowers for the Olympic title in 1952) was not worrying about the Russians only. "Something is creeping into our own athletic setup which is not good," said he. "Our youngsters no longer go to the schools that their daddies went to, or to schools that they have a great admiration for. They mostly go to those which make the best offers...
...friend Asch suffers from no such fears of the military. A bright, thoughtful type with a gyroscopic sense of self-preservation, he hates the whole military setup but manages to land all the cozy details while creating the impression that he is a first-rate soldier. While Vierbein works himself to death without reward, Asch's brilliantly planned loafing brings him a recommendation for corporal...
Playwright Robert Anderson '39, director Garson Kanin, and set designer Donald P. Oenslager '23 said that a formal theatre would enable undergraduates to gain valuable stage experience while still in College. Anderson cautioned, however, that "too much emphasis should not be placed on the physical setup...
...stands by that 1950 report. Once, when Mather appealed for extra hands to help with the school of agriculture's bumper crop, the division said no. The crop rotted, and at considerable expense the university had to buy its food on the open market. All in all, the setup has been so suffocating that the Phi Beta Kappa senate has refused to charter a university chapter...
...room, and translates it into a stream of electronic signals. Then a picture tube (with 1,029 "lines" of light instead of the usual 525) turns the signals into a reproduction of the scene in front of the camera. The big difference between the Lumicon and an ordinary TV setup is that the electronic signals are strengthened enormously, making the picture on the tube much brighter than the scene that the camera is viewing...