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...deft gesture at passing the buck, the mayor and the city council set up a Committee of Fifteen (five councilmen, ten citizens) to look into the matter. Last March, the committee recommended a $5,000,000 increase, insisted that the money could be raised by more strenuous efforts to collect taxes and a more efficient municipal operation generally...
Listed on its pages are accounts of all House athletics during the past year. Strenuous activities are also reported, such as Deacon dances, beer parties, football punches, and other hoopla races. Names of House members have crept in here and there and all the pages are numbered...
...Triumph (Enterprise-United Artists) is one of the outstanding misfires of the season. Those who made it shoveled some $5,000,000 into the mixer; a couple of topflight romantic leads (Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer); a couple of topflight character actors (Charles Laughton and Louis Calhern); the strenuous talents of Director Lewis Milestone; a massive, studious production; and a somewhat bowdlerized version of Erich Remarque's best-selling romance about political derelicts in the limbo of 1939 Paris...
...came to a head with the formation nationally of ADA, a specifically non-Communist organization pledged to the extension of "the Roosevelt-Willkie tradition." To join this group, HLU had to amend its constitution, and, further, join SDA (ADA's student branch), as individuals. This latter provision met with strenuous objection from the AYD sympathizers, but after several ballots the motion was passed and HLU settled into its current "Roosevelt-Willkie" tradition, joining SDA last fall. HLU's affiliation with this group is loose, the Harvard branch maintaining autonomy with occasional...
...Strenuous Life...