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...cavort around a palace pool obviously built in manual training class. At best, there are agreeable melodies to be ruined by the lyrics, and two lively numbers, "He's In Love" and the first act Finale. In any case, the music helps Kismet to whirl with amiable vulgarity through thirteen scenes, and the New York businessman will probably find the show a god-send for entertaining a Big Account...
With her son already examining colleges, Mrs. Pusey thinks back to her meeting with her husband. He was a junior in college, then," Mrs. Pusey says, "and I was thirteen. He seemed like somebody's grandfather." President Pusey tutored Mrs. Pusey, then Anne Woodward, for a summer in algebra. "I got an A in algebra for the first term," she says. "The next term, without the tutoring, I didn't do so well." Upon her graduation from Bryn Mawr eight years later, Miss Woodward and her tutor were promptly married...
Undoubtedly Mrs. Pusey's abundance of warmth and friendliness were evident even at thirteen. Perhaps the Harvard junior was then looking ahead to married life in a teacher's modest home. There has been then but one change in long-range plan: the modest home is now 17 Quincy Street...
...Thirteen students from the University's nine schools have been invited to President Pusey's inauguration next Tuesday, Powell M. Cabot '18, University Marshal, announced yesterday...
...thirteen years the Provost, with the President's, cooperation and advice, has presided over (the College's diffuse administration), initiating and carrying out consistent policies. vigorous in their aptness to the present and striking in their maintenance of Harvard's best traditions. . . . A Provost must somehow secure confidence while playing politics, a feat which Mr. Buck accomplished with astonishing success. . . . It is a rare combination, ruthlessness and warmth; but from this paradox of character have come most of the advances by which Harvard has retained its place as the foremost American college...