Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eight hundred and seventy-one members of the class of 1931 yesterday received a blank containing a number of questions which, if dutifully answered, will touch the high lights of each Senior's life up to the close of his college career...
...questions range from political affiliations to opinions on the War Memorial, and touch on such subjects as college activities, choices of best liked and disliked courses, opinions on the House Plan, the Reading Period, and the Tutorial System. The last two pages of the questionnaire are left blank, and each Senior is encouraged to mention anything which has not already been covered. the only new question to be added this year are those concerning the War Memorial, intramural and intercollegiate sports, and the distinction between major and minor sports...
...itself. Unfortunately, here, as in other walks of life, it is a case of divided to fall, united to stand. Given enough rope, enough cooperation, enough seasoned catch-words, and the hardened suicide can live through any system fabricated. Show a few gentlemen C's, worn with just a touch of the Gentleman Ranker and the Spree, and membership to the Federation of Non-Labor is free of charge...
...Wiser They Are is Producer Jed Harris' lightest comedy to date. It is eminently agreeable, very amusing. Osgood Perkins left the cast of Philip Barry's Tomorrow & Tomorrow to take the part of Bruce Ingram. Urbane Mr. Perkins, whose dramatic touch is deft and definite, is quite at home under the Harris aegis. He was the kinetic editor of the now almost legendary Front Page, also the frustrated doctor of Uncle Vanya...
...place of a speedy miracle, Earl Musselman must slowly accommodate himself to a three-dimensional, colored world. He cannot yet gauge distances by angles and shadows. Everything seems flat. He must touch objects to perceive their spacial relationship. By & by, as his pupils (they are artificial) and his cleansed lenses learn to accommodate, he will be able to focus sights normally...