Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago, when Hemenway Gymnasium was a secret Navy experimentation center, the uncoached Varsity squash team stood at the bottom of the Intercollegiate league, losing every single match played. Last year, Coach Jack Barnaby returned, and in three short months turned out a team that defeated every league opponent with the exception of Yale...
When the regional newsletter becomes an actuality instead of a plan, when facilities for publicity become organized, when, in short, students and student organizations in one college know what is happening in other colleges, NSA, will be in a position to start achieving objectives. The educational opportunities of minority groups, to take one example, can be studied by means of information exchanges, perhaps improved through conclusions based on a comparison of differing problems and solutions. No material good will come on such problems as minority groups, or student employment, or cost of living in college, through occasional meetings of regional...
...ignoscenti, however, a word or two of explanation may still be necessary. Let it be said, then, that Samuel Goldwyn and Friends have taken a little but justly-famous Thurber short story from a "New Yorker" of a few years back about mild, henpecked Walter Mitty and his daydreams of grandeur--and upon it they have based a full-sized picture, complete with Goldwyn Girls. The original was simple, poignant, and pathetically amusing. The greatly expanded, glamorized, seat-song-studded cinema product is not; as indeed it could never be. But is this kind of comparison a fair one? Does...
...less than it depends upon the needs of the individual student, the effect of the Freshman adviser system rests on the individual adviser. Some of the present 111 advisers have been little short of inspirational. These men have fully utilized the material provided by the Freshman Dean's office--material that includes all the information concerning the student that was available to the Board of Admissions, as well as placement grades and a confidential parental letter. These advisers do not necessarily pamper or subdue the individual. Rather do they help him to adapt his individuality to his college with...
...Telephone," a short, comic curtain-raiser, opens the evening lightly and pleasantly. "The Medium," on the other hand, is a complete musical-dramatic synthesis which absorbs its audiences as few plays or concerts ever could. The story is a fascinating study of a fake medium who goes mad when the spirits she produces mechanically for her seances begin to appear unasked. The opera in Menotti's hands and those of the Ballet Society is far more than the usual Metropolitan parade of dummies with voices; Menotti probes far into the characters of the degenerate medium, her mute servant and kind...