Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...policy, students are not expected, but are given an opportunity, to get acquainted with the outstanding instructors in different fields. Though House athletics are not regarded as a social obligation, the Elephants are generally well represented and have had notable successes such as winning the intramural crew trophy last Spring...
...blows land where they should--but only occasionally. The truth is that Shaw himself sometimes misses, for this is not one of his most satisfactory plays. It contains the usual quota of talk, and much of it is brilliant. But there are other long stretches when the great Shavian spring of wit runs dry, and the playwright's dislike of doctors appears as little more than a querulous mania. The most unfortunate part of the play, however, is the totally unnecessary last act, which serves only to confuse the problem which the work poses...
Born the younger son of a noble family in what became Latvia after World War I, Peter von Blanckenhagen has travelled a long road to his guest appointment in classical art this spring. Naturalized as an American citizen in 1955, he holds something of a record of having been a legal citizen of four countries in succession, and at one time a citizen of none. He was Russian until the Bolshevik revolt, legally Latvian until 1941 when Latvia was annexed. Then he became German where his family had emigrated some time before as their familial holdings had been confiscated...
...House theatricals, a Christmas play and a spring musical, this year "The Pirates of Penzance" now in rehearsal, have received more financial backing than in the past, resulting in increased House participation. A play-reading group has been established within the last two years, and plans are already under way among a few students and tutors to present more drama next year...
Specifically, Yovicsin announced his intention of taking maximum advantage of the lone organizational meeting permitted in the spring by Ivy League regulations. This meeting will be held soon after spring vacation...