Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mason from Sir: President Truman, referring to the time when he became Grand Master of the Missouri Grand Lodge in 1940, says: "I considered it, and still consider it, the highest honor that ever came to me" [TIME...
...hands become slowly-opening lotus blossoms--and it is no less fascinating to see her make a piece of fabric tell a story. But all of these things seem to belong to the decorative arts, not to the creative. However, every dancer, indeed every interpretative artist, could still learn much from her, as many of our most famous dancers have...
...spite of its limitations, "An Evening of Shaw" is still worth seeing. The production is competent, if not greatly inspired; and Shaw, competently rendered, is a treat in itself...
...Harvard and Radcliffe are having their troubles in the economic downdrift. Neither is feeling as bard a pinch as many a U.S. school, but each is facing the same worries. Gifts, invested endowment, and, in some cases, tuition incomes are sliding downward, but wages, salaries, and equipment costs are still clinging to inflation-high levels. In other words, the "cost of education" is too high for an increasingly large segment of America's educational institutions...
Harvard is much better off than today's average U.S. colleges or university, but is still not exempt from financial worries. The 1948-1949 Financial Report revealed an excess of almost $500,000 of income over expenses, but this surplus was gained only by eating into reserve funds to pay off the debts of such deficit departments as the Athletic Association, the library, and five graduate schools. Moreover, there is no assurance that there will be any overall surplus next year...