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...long day's schooling, are entitled to their 15 minutes' reward. Who grudges the bishop his detective novel or the businessman his nightly half-hour on the Times crossword? . . . Heaven postpone the day when our priggish offspring forsake such unsophisticated thrills for the sober contemplation of their own importance in the future of planned economy...
...brief sober pause midway between Christmas and New Year's Eve, 358 delegates at the Chicago Conference sweated and politicked through a smoke-filled parliamentary maze. They knew what they wanted: no axe-grinding by existing youth organizations, no partisan domination by doctrinaire minorities, escape from the shadow of past failures in building a U. S. Students movement...
...pragmatic philosophy-"I've found out that in the long run what's good for one section is pretty much good for the country"-and not worry too much about the consequences. Republican leaders would now have to look sharper and farther. Generally, they were sober men and aware of their new responsibilities; they were ready for the big test...
...Peter Rabbit. Charles Dickens, by Dame Una Pope-Hennessy, cast no light on Dickens' working manners, much on his bedside manner. Stefan Zweig's posthumous, unfinished Balzac might have said more if Zweig had lived to finish the telling. Hesketh Pearson's Oscar Wilde was a sober, intelligent study of a man-and type-who is rarely treated with either sobriety or intelligence. Three literary autobiographies rated notice: Communist Playwright Sean 0'Casey's Drums under the Window, which stirred personalities, poetry and politics into a uniquely Irish stew; Liberal Franz Schoenberner's Confessions...
While each of the local clubs has a different program, there is much in the activities of the Associated Harvard Clubs which shows the sober intent of Alumni activity. Scholarships, worth $22,000 annually, take a great share of the interest, as do the Harvard book prizes, awards of books by Harvard men or staff members to outstanding secondary school students across the country. The book prizes also put the University in direct contact with secondary school students allowing members of the faculty to seek out and watch the progress of prospective Freshmen. Other club activities show even more...