Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Casehardened. In Gateshead, England, after his arrest for drunken driving, James Scott admitted under oath that he had downed 13 pints of beer on the night he was arrested, argued that "it would take 15 pints to put me under the influence," was acquitted when a police sergeant testified that Scott was "well used to taking drink...
...contemporary scene. His fluent presentation combines charm and wit, and as he remarks in the foreword to one book, "I think the reader will find this a good-humored book. There is a place, no doubt, for the great polemic.... I would like to suppose I do not take myself so seriously." He laments the set-up in economics wherein "an economist who uses math and can't add is excluded from the field, while one who uses oral expression and can't write may be considered a competent scholar...
These "discussions" take place each Thursday at Winthrop's "Economics Table," where a shifting line-up always features Galbraith at the head of the table and such pinch hitters as Lady Jackson (Barbard Ward) and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., with as many tutors and undergrads as can find room...
...status of the University's speech training. The speech department has only one position of tenure; the department itself is relegated to inadequate facilities on the third floor of the Busch-Reisinger Museum. Even if the interested student surmounts all these obstacles his tutor often advises him not to take a speech course...
...arrangements was ruined. By great good fortune most of the scores and some of the masters, which are the first parts taken from the scores and duplicated therefrom, were saved. This means that the creative efforts are still there and we can eventually refurbish our material--however it will take time and quite a bit of money. Of course, as time goes on there will be other pieces of creative arranging done for the Band. It must always be borne in mind, however, that the Band is an extracurricular activity in the same classification with the Dramatic Club, the CRIMSON...