Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radcliffe opens its season at the annual play day get-together of 15 colleges, scheduled this year for Beaver Country Day School October 25. This is a clinic for coaches and prospective officials and short games are played with opponents selected by the toss of a quarter...
Starved for female companionship, Crimson cyclists have pedaled all the way to Northampton-to set a record of something just short of five and one-half hours-and in previous years have pushed and wheezed their way south to Wheaton. In 1941 they staged a high-wheeler race to the 'Cliffe in period costume...
...collection of character studies, "Gus the Great" is superb; as a continuous story, it falls somewhat short of the mark. Mr. Duncan throws out a wealth of threads during his novel and has difficulty weaving them into a satisfactory knot at the climax. Important characters clash in a weird and incongruous way. While others are forgotten entirely. But regardless of the flaws in its construction, "Gus the Great" is a monumental work, showing both penetrating insight and real sympathy for the circus...
...political drag rather than merit, instructors had little incentive and virtually no leadership, and student guidance programs were unknown. Equally important, but less fundamental points concerned antiquated teaching methods, obsolete texts, the lack of adequate vocational training, hazardous, airless buildings, foul sanitary systems, poor medical facilities, and a short twenty-minute lunch period designed to develop a race of jack rabbits with east iron stomachs...
...Book-of-the-Month Club. This is its first publication in English. Its author, Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, was born in the small town of Cully on Lake Geneva. He lived and wrote in Paris from 1902 to 1914. The eight novels, four books of verse and two collections of short stories he wrote in those years pleased only a small group of admirers. Ramuz returned to his native canton of Vaud. shook off Parisian literary influences and identified himself in his work with peasants, small craftsmen and woodchoppers. As a result, the French critics who had ignored...