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...with the small, untraditional colleges have usually been acceptable affairs. There has always been discussion in the newspapers and at the Harvard Clubs on giving up The Big Three arrangement and such powerful opponents as Army and Stanford but no one has ever mentioned forsaking the Crimson's lesser, unknown foes...
...devotion of the medieval Crusaders who marched in great waves toward the unknown East to wrest the sepulchre of Christ from infidel defilement stands in history as an everlastingly marvelous drama. Modern readers (and historians) don't quite know what to make of the Crusades. At best, they speak of a "miracle of faith," at worst of "blind fanaticism" mixed with greed. The word crusade is becoming fashionable again, but few 20th century men can imagine a faith as real, natural and all-inclusive as life itself, so that heroism and villainy, love and war, passion...
Until this year, the College had a pre-medical tutor who was supposed to advise the entire College. But he was virtually unknown and unconsulted outside of his own House. Now he also is gone and the College has left unfulfilled a responsibility to a sixth of the undergraduate body. Eliot has assumed its part of this responsibility. The other Houses should do likewise...
...time. But the stories from the woodshed were quickly forgotten after Mrs. Eaton revealed the doings in the kitchen. With tearful remorse, the Mistress pleaded ignorance of "their mackeral, brought to them with their guts in them, and goat's dung in their hasty pudding. It's utterly unknown to me," she protested, adding, "but I am ashamed it should be in the family, and not prevented by myself or servants, and I humbly acknowledge my negligence...
...recorded Berg's operas Wozzeck and Lulu, and all the quartets of Schoenberg and Bartok, Lieberson discovered gradually that "it is becoming almost bourgeois to do contemporary music-everybody's doing it now." It is also too expensive for a major company to take a chance on unknown modern composers. At the same time, recordings of well-known music are almost choking each other (there are no fewer than 21 recordings of Beethoven's Eroica on the market, 16 of Brahms's First Symphony...