Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arrival, the Freshman is immediately indoctrinated with propaganda about school traditions and regulations. She is introduced to her "big sister," who is her guide through the first hectic weeks of orientation and organization. The freshman almost unanimously praised the big sister system. All four classes are housed in the dormitories and the girls approve of this idea, as it gives the freshmen a chance to "learn all about the school." As one student put it, "It gives more of an overall5CRIMSONHarry S. ParkerThis future "uncommon woman" is enjoying the early October sun in the small formal garden outside...
...most engaging off-Broadway musical-3.000 miles off Broadway-is an adaptation of John Millington Synge's lilting Irish classic, The Playboy of the Western World, which opened last week at London's Westminster Theater. The adapters: two music students, Nuala O'Farrell, 26, and her sister Mairin, 27, who started the show as a workshop project for Dublin's University College. They succeeded so well that the play was staged last month at Dublin's Gaiety Theater and won rave notices...
...third son of a Milwaukee grocer of German descent, he showed an early leaning to the priesthood (his sister, a nun, remembers that at the age of five he used to play at saying Mass with a cloth over an old table and a glass of water for the chalice of wine). In his early parish at Waukesha, Wis., and later as bishop of Superior, Wis., Meyer was more noted as an able administrator than as a fighter for causes, has rarely committed himself on social issues...
...mother in the midst of a difficult accouchement, the notion of the pushcart peddler is banished. All that remains for the boy to do is get Mama to the hospital, spring Papa from the jug, and reunite the whole gang in time for the birth of baby sister...