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...following Juniors were elected to membership in the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society Thursday: David M. Balabanian, of Kirkland House and Cashmere, Wash., a concentrator in Government; Michael W. B. Freeman, of Eliot House and Detroit, Mich., Romance Languages and Literatures; and Smith Freeman Jr., of Eliot House and Northfield, III., Chemistry and Physics...
President Charles W. Eliot recalled after his resignation some of the fires throughout the University's history. One of them involved a French instructor who used to teach in the University Hall basement classroom in the 1858-9 term. He had a touchy habit of listing his agenda for the day on the blackboard and hiding it with a curtain so as not to distract his young men in class. Then he would whip the curtain back dramatically and pompously at the right time in the recitation period...
...Gordon W. Allport '19, professor of Psychology; M. Stanley Livingston, director of the Cambridge Electron Accelerator; David Riesman '31, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences; Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, Emeritus; and Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, Emeritus, are among 57 individuals whose names are printed at the bottom of the petition...
Nanki-Poo Presley. A sometime contralto in G. & S. amateur productions, Petitioner Alderley was badly shaken four years ago to learn that the British copyright on W. S. Gilbert's lyrics would expire in 1961 (the copyright on Sullivan's music lapsed in 1950). She promptly withdrew to her little Oxford bedsitting room, and for ten hours each day sat scrawling appeals to Gilbert & Sullivan fans the world over, requesting their signatures for the petition she was preparing for Parliament. Seared into her mind were reported visions of Mike Todd's Hot Mikado with Katisha...
Although many G. & S. buffs feel that the operas can only benefit from the removal of copyright restrictions ("Throw out the petition!" wrote one newsman. "Every last cliché, comma and full stop of it!"), Purist Alderley was more determined than ever to protect W. S. Gilbert from the depredations of popular arrangers. One, last week, even wanted to give lolanthe a "honkytonk beat" and retitle it Zaza Has a Piazza...