Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Houses to do, although even then a Crimson editorial deplored their "utter disregard for the extra-curricular but still intellectual side of undergraduate life." Today, with their failure to organize small, departmental discussion groups, to encourage more than the occasional forums held in two of the Houses, in short, to fill in the educational holes caused by a threadbare tutorial system, this "utter disregard" has become more basic than the flaw it was in 1938. It is forcing the first regular postwar class applying for admission to the Houses to do so only on the basis of their merits...
Once a month or so the Old Man leaves San Simeon to visit Los Angeles, but he goes to few Hollywood parties. Mostly he sticks to business, firing directives to his editors with the familiar salutation "Chief suggests. ..." A recent one urged all hands to keep paragraphs and sentences short, "so your stories will be understandable...
...short, is bound to passivity by the perfection of what He has created. Further progress is impossible. Says Toynbee: ". . . The impulse or motive which makes a perfect Yin-state pass over into a new Yang-activity comes from an intrusion of the Devil into the universe...
Skyscrapersful of radiomen hardly ever heard of the guy, but Aristocles, the son of Ariston (Plato for short) is one of radio's best scripters. He proved it recently, when the Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council (TIME, Nov. 25) gave Plato's scripts an airing-three times a week over Boston's WHDH...
Still $3,000 short of the $25,000 goal, Campbell reported that "the flow of income is not letting up," and pointed to the receipt during the past two days of $200 from faculty members and $100 from a New York alumnus. Over 1400 of the faculty men and women have not yet responded to the Committee's second appeal...