Word: trained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Look out of the windows on the left hand side of the subway train crossing the Charles St. bridge the next time you're going in town and you'll see, sticking up between the Bunker Hill monument and the Navy Yard cranes, the great red truss of Boston's first big bridge. Stretching somewhat over two miles from City Square, Charlestown to Chelsea Square, the huge double decker is 3000 feet longer than the Golden Gate Bridge and rises 135 feet above the high water level of the Mystic River--the same clearance as the Brooklyn Bridge has over...
...your reviewer himself, Robert Sherwood's recent lecture here, "After the Lampoon. What?" in which he gave his opinion that the magazine was of late at a high point in its course? A lone voice who will admittedly be shouted down by your chorus of magnanimous reviewers. J. Train '50, Harvard Lampoon
This film series represents one of a large group of projects on tap for members throughout the next year. Reuted from the Modern Museum of Art, this fall's program consists of a short survey of the film in America, beginning with "The Great Train Robbery" and running through "All Quiet on the Western Front." In the spring, classical foreign pictures from France and Germany, including "The Passion of Jean of Arc" and numerous German propaganda films, will be presented for the benefit of club members...
Most of this mayhem is instigated by the U. S. Treasury, whose agent seems to be replacing the ubiquitous G-Man as Public Friend Number One. The T-Men are after Cagney for various crimes ranging up to train robbery; he is assisted by his aging mother who is determined that her son should achieve social success. Cagney is less amply helped by Virginia Mayo. Miss Mayo alternates her finely-built presence between an un-Johnston office night-gown and a turtle-neck sweater, between Cagney and the cops and his cohorts, depending how the legal wind is blowing...
...first hint a student receives of this is his arrival on the campus. There is no hazing to indoctrinate the newcomer in "spirit," nor does he spend his first few days facing a barrage of tests. He steps off the train and is welcomed by a special committee of sophomores. He sees a big sign in the station "Welcome Freshmen." He is guided to the campus, where his first days contain welcoming speeches, a big dance, meetings with advisers, exchange dinners with the girls' dorms, a tour around the "Farm," a varsity football game, and a barbecue supper...