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...cake, and eat it too." But most agree that they manage to do a very good job of it. As Cherington summed it up: "Radcliffe has extremely high intellectual standards, yet the girls have style and 'elan', and take their highly varied and extensive social life well in their stride." Compared with other women's colleges, he said, "It ranks with Bryn Mawr and Barnard as the three leading intellectual colleges, yet it does not have 'the supra-heated steam intellectualism' of Bryn Mawr. Holyoke girls are too sweet and wholesome, while Wellesley girls don't measure up intellectually...
...plot has a shed to guard against sudden showers, but the only closed building on the campus is a chapel decorated by gypsy painters. Geography is taught on large relief maps that have fresh water coursing through their lakes and rivers. Students cross the Straits of Gibraltar in a stride, hop the Mediterranean, stand on capital and continent while they sing their lessons. As they learn arithmetic, they themselves represent numbers, move about like chessmen singing easy, arithmetic rhymes. In other classes, they act out Spain's history, impersonating the Roman Consul Galba, El Cid or Columbus...
...first news of Stalin's illness knocked some wind out of the market last week, but only for a day. Then stocks made up their losses and took the change in power in Russia in their stride...
...appears to play with so little effort that he's deceiving," adds Dallmar. "But watch him when Penn needs two points. He really moves-he has the speed and the long stride to make the most of every opportunity...
...premiere last week and there, before a large audience of well-wishers (and an estimated 9,000,000 who listened on radio), fell flat on it's libretto. Continental capitals, more used to new operas than the U.S., had taken The Rake pretty much in stride since its Venetian premiere (TIME, Sept.24, 1951). But as the first modern work the Met had produced in five years, it seemed pretty effete. Written by Poet W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman as an 18th century moral fable, The Rake's book pointed its moral more in irony than in earnestness...