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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suggestion by Winthrop D. Thies 3L to substitute a three-dollar deposit for the present yearly payment will probably be acted upon by Coop stock-holders at the meeting Nov. 7, Morrill said...
...this fellowship I carry emblazoned on my fading consciousness. It is the memory of staggering upstairs from the dining hall to my moist and tropical room, my belly swelled with an evening feast of boiled potato, wads of creamy butter, rice pudding, French bread, crispy pie crust and glass upon glass of tepid milk. (It is of such starch that tomorrow's leaders are made.) It is the memory of a genial House superintendent humbly whistling an Irish air as he searched musty closets for machine-guns, hashish, Radcliffe girls and other contraband. It is the memory of leather magazine...
Nevertheless, all things considered, the head athletic managership at Harvard is a most desirable position. He receives invaluable training in assuming business and executive responsibility. Law and Business Schools look with favor upon candidates who have been athletic managers and the experience itself is extremely useful in later life. If a student has the ability to administer the affairs of a large organization, the desire to learn the inner workings of a team, and the talent to become the head manager, he will find that this experience is rarely equaled by student positions at Harvard...
Further hindrances are the lighting and photography, both of which give the movie such a limited visual appeal that it seems highly unreal. Also the use of subtitles upon an often white background sometimes makes it difficult to follow the dialogue...
ANECDOTES OF DESTINY, by Isak Dinesen (244 pp.; Random House; $3.75), tells how, once upon a time, there was a theological student of Shiraz who thought highly of angels-so highly that he made himself wings and got all set for flight to the angelic spheres. But the Shiraz authorities, who disapproved of high-flown ideas, dressed up a beautiful dancer to look like an angel and planted her on the roof of the student's house, where he studied the skies. By next morning the happy student had reached two important conclusions: that angelic conduct...