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...this country but for one I have discovered in the Finger Lakes of New York State." Those who meet him and withdraw at an apparent forbidding austerity soon learn that Gropius possesses a keen sense of humor (hampered somewhat by an incomplete appreciation of American slang) and the greatest warmth for people who are young-in years or in ideas. At Robinson Hall his carefully screened graduate students from the four corners of the earth hold him in something close to worship. One Czech girl exploded: "We're all in love with...
...friendly affair, that introduces likable people and captures a nice stage warmth; but it is also pretty thin and frail. Its conventionally retarded romance involves a professor's daughter (already engaged to a dull, career-minded architect) and a colonel who comes home from war to find the professor's family occupying his apartment. The amusingly meddlesome professor (played with gusto by Joseph Buloff) keeps the architect-whom he doesn't want for a son-in-law - hopelessly buried in blueprints so that the colonel can have a clear field with the girl...
...estimated 1645 undergraduates will spend this summer basking in the warmth of a Harvard education, Francis Keppel '38, assistant to the Provest, said yesterday as he tabulated December study cards and new February registrations of students who had declared this intention...
Problems of administration make some of these restrictions necessary. Interhouse privileges at lunch, for instance, while theoretically desirable, would result in mass descents on Adams House on cold, rainy days, and even in the warmth of spring lazy science majors would seek out the closest dining hall. Major migrations of this sort, which depend on the vagaries of the weather and of student programs, would make an administrative tangle out of all proportion to their actual value to students. But interhouse between the Union and the House is another matter. With veterans making up a large proportion of Yardlings, friendship...
...newcomers, Benjamin Franklin Stapleton, 73, seems one of the most ineffectual old men in the rambling, shady-city of Denver. He dreads change. He falls asleep at public meetings, mumbles in monosyllables and exudes a little less social warmth than Marley's ghost. He does not smoke or drink and has never been known to swear. Beyond these traits the other fact for newcomers to learn is that Ben Stapleton is Denver's mayor...