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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the quintet has compiled a record of 16 wins and 8 losses overall, it has been somewhat less impressive in League play, winning 7 and dropping 6. Yale, with an 8-5 record, shares second place with Penn and Princeton. Dartmouth clinched the League championship and an NCAA bid with its win over the Quakers last Saturday night...

Author: By Mark L. Krupnick, | Title: Quintet Meets Yale Tonight To Decide Big Three Title | 3/5/1958 | See Source »

Being a great believer in the power of the press and the perspicacity of Harvard students, I was surprised that even after the CRIMSON gave a somewhat backhanded rave to The Consul attendance at the show has been bordering between the miserable and the discouraging...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CONSUL | 3/5/1958 | See Source »

...concentrator is really the step-child of the music department. An effort to alleviate somewhat the dearth of courses available to him is a projected course in music theory, Music 2, which the department will offer next year without pre-requisite. While this is an excellent addition to the catalogue, it does not begin to compensate for the fact that there is no consistent policy with regard to middle-group courses open to the general student. For the past few years, this has meant that there are no such courses. This spring, Assistant Professor Sapp is giving...

Author: By Paul A. Buttenwieser, | Title: The Music Department at Harvard | 3/5/1958 | See Source »

...undergraduate concentrator is in a somewhat gloomier position. After the requirements have been fulfilled there is very little room for electives (honors and non-honors candidates alike take six courses, almost all full courses), which is just as well, because the Department does not offer very many electives. Although an undergraduate occasionally can enter a graduate course--there is a Freshman in Professor Piston's composition seminar this year--most are restricted to a very small selection of courses...

Author: By Paul A. Buttenwieser, | Title: The Music Department at Harvard | 3/5/1958 | See Source »

Mathilde Carré had green eyes, "somewhat fanglike" teeth and so much self-confidence that at school she had been nicknamed Little Princess. A sometime nurse in Paris, Mathilde made her way to Toulouse in occupied France, where she became the mistress of Major Czarniawski, a Polish intelligence officer. He enlisted Mathilde's help in forming an Allied intelligence network. Her way of curling up in a leather chair and nervously scratching its arms with her fingernails brought her the nickname under which she became famous: The Cat. Years later, though, a British security guard remarked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fatal Ferret | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

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