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It was colder than any reasonable April afternoon had a right to be, and the varsity wasted three solid quarters before warming to its task. But Harvard still beat M.I.T. 9-5 on the Engineers ridiculous playing field yesterday. Sloppy passing, abysmal officiating, and freezing temperatures all contributed to what...

Author: By Robert A. Ferguson, | Title: Crimson Ten Tops Tech In Final Period Surge | 4/11/1963 | See Source »

Pressures at Smith are not confined to the classroom; conformity in manners, ideals, and dress is a hallmark of the Smith student. All colleges tend toward an undergraduate uniform, but nowhere is it more widely and carefully adopted than Smith. The well-groomed Smithie is moderate in dress, neither ostentatious...

Author: By J.michael Crichton, | Title: Smith College: The Middle Way | 3/26/1963 | See Source »

Once all this is done, limeness is just beginning. The distinctive feature of this style is Style. Girls who adopt it are sometimes thought of as the Radcliffe stereotype, and probably give wholesome Harvard freshmen from Iowa their first proof that the East is indeed strange looking. Greek shoulderbags are...

Author: By Faye Levine, | Title: The Three Flavors of Radcliffe | 3/12/1963 | See Source »

Miss Dumont's bungling--bumpy scales, sloppy arpeggios--in the filler passages might have been dismissed if something like artistry had survived elsewhere. But Miss Dumont has been on four successful European tours, and being out of the country so much, she naturally has not had time to learn about...

Author: By Joel E. Cohen, | Title: Lily Dumont and the HRO | 3/11/1963 | See Source »

As he spoke we scanned his dimly lit fourth floor conference room. Perhaps at one time the room was part of an attic, dusty, stale, and dead. But as Friedman has decorated it, the room is almost oppressive in its humanity. At odd corners of the room are numerous animals...

Author: By Paul S. Cowan and L. GEOFFREY Cowan, S | Title: Expansion Threatens Sarah Lawrence Ideal | 3/9/1963 | See Source »

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