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...aspiring Astronomy-major who fancies his prospective field as a sort of idealistic joyride into the realm of fantasy, the best advice is "Pull out now, before it's too late!" Go out into the starry night, like Walt Whitman, and enjoy the beauty of the heavens while the learned astronomers rave on inside; but whatever you do, don't try to become a learned astronomer yourself. Astronomy is one of the meatiest, most practical fields of concentration offered at Harvard...
...Bernard Drzewieski, a pint-sized Pole, pointed up UNESCO's need: "In some parts of Greece and Poland there are 50 kids to one pencil." But Drzewieski himself had trouble with one small cultural barrier: he attributed the dream of "the new city of Friends" to "Walter" Whitman...
...offering of sacred and profane music, the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society over-extended themselves last night in a program that was often interesting, but, in toto, musically unsatisfying. The performances of music ranging from sixteenth century Palestrina and Gabrieli to a Hindemith setting of Walt Whitman continually emphasized text and style at the expense of sound, and the intricacies of the complex part singing were never fully realized by renditions not quite up to Harvard-Radcliffe standards...
Enormously earnest and energetic, The Varmints is also enormously overwritten, and naive. Walt Whitman might have tried a novel like this at 21, had he been born a girl and been exposed to the heat of Freud, Faulkner, Dos Passes, Fannie Hurst and Gulf Coast Florida...
This general impression of the American college man was supported by first hand evidence by a Whitman Hall junior yesterday afternoon, who found "more drinking at Harvard parties than I've ever seen before...