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...Harvard women's squash team devastated Smith and Vassar Saturday, drubbing both schools by 7-0 scores in Northampton, Mass...
...very disillusioned" by the lack of vigor and intellectual standards. He earned an M.A. at Columbia in 1950, and then began working for his Ph.D. under Lionel Trilling in Dramatic Literature and Cultural Criticism. He taught briefly at Cornell (freshman composition, where he says he "first learned to write"), Vassar, and, after receiving his Ph.D., Columbia. "I actually went into drama criticism because I thought it would get me practical work in the theatre," Brustein said in an interview re-published in The Third Theatre...
...Tish was sent east to Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Conn. She went to Vassar at 16, graduating at 19 with a B.A. in psychology. After a year at the University of Geneva, Tish decided she wanted to work in Europe. She displayed even then her persistent ability to stand back, set goals and methodically fulfill them. The State Department said she would need secretarial skills even to apply for a job overseas; she knocked off a year-long secretarial curriculum in eight weeks...
...that one might imagine. When the Juilliard was playing once at Darmstadt, Germany, a contemporary music center, the crowd found the Elliott Carter quartet so passe that they talked and jeered throughout. Robert Mann retaliated by playing with his back to the crowd. When the Concord was playing at Vassar in 1972, the group had to stop twice in a lengthy George Rochberg quartet to replace broken strings. As he turned the last page, Violinist Sokol breathed a sigh of relief?and his music fluttered to the floor. When Cellist Norman Fischer bent down to retrieve it, he knocked over...
Martha Roberts, the netwomen's singles ace, came back to grab the consolation blue ribbon after dropping a disappointing contest to Greta Frei of Vassar, 2-2. In the finals, Robert defeated Barnard's Ann D'Adesky, a recent transfer from Florida...