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Applications for graduate and under-graduate speakers at Commencement will be accepted until April 10 by Cedrie H. Whitman, associate professor of Greek and Latin. Written drafts of the speeches. which should not be over six minutes in length, should be submitted at 14 Holyoke House. This year the Houses are planning to nominate members to participate in the traditional contest...
Although plans for the course are still uncertain, Alfred and Cedric H. Whitman '38, associate professor of Latin and Greek and co-lecturer in Humanities 8, disclosed some of their tentative ideas for reading material ranging through the plays of the Greek dramatists, Shakespeare, Moliere, Ibsen, and Pirandello. "I would like to also consider some medieval plays, especially Everyman, and also Beckett's Waiting for Godot, which is essentially medieval...
...novels, Alfred felt that works like Joseph Andrews and Little Dorrit were good examples of the use of dramatic techniques. Whitman added, "we may have the students study operas of Mozart and Verdi...
...Howard Denning, head resident of Whitman Hall, criticized the new plan because it will involve House Committee members in the financial matters of other students. Room assignments involve a knowledge of each student's ability to pay, she explained...
...affection, she goes off on pathetic tangents of rebelliousness-threatens to undress in public, pawns her schoolbooks to pay for a permanent wave, takes clandestine bus trips to Memphis. "I gotta get chances in this life," she rages, and before long she gets one with a roustabout (Stuart Whitman) in a traveling carnival. He is not a bad young fellow, but he is not good either, and before he is through he almost takes the girl for everything she has-including $3,000 her guardian has been hoarding. Just in time for a happy ending, the heroine realizes that...