Word: williams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eugene H. Zagat, Jr. '61, vice-President of the Council, proposed an "open forum" in March to discuss NSA and to set up a committee to study NSA's summer convention. His first motion was soundly defeated, following charges by William M. Kargman '61, that "a forum before the student body at this time will create unrest and lose further Council prestige...
...unlikely gimcrack that for years has been the hottest-selling art object in Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost big island, is the small plaster bust (price: $1) of a stern-faced New England schoolmaster who died in 1887. William Smith Clark stayed only eight months on Hokkaido, but the visit, in 1876, was long enough for him to be enshrined by the islanders as something between seer and saint. On leave from his job as president of Massachusetts Agricultural College (now the University of Massachusetts), Clark helped found the school that was to become the outpost island's pride...
...William Smith Clark the ambitious growth would be satisfying; so would the new student union (the first one in Japan) and the faculty-exchange program carried on with the University of Massachusetts. But possibly even more pleasing would be the sight of young Japanese scholars pursuing knowledge with Yankee vigor. When frostbite threatens in a Hokkaido lecture hall-outside temperature sometimes reaches 40° below and that indoors is often only somewhat more temperate-the sufferer rushes outdoors, rubs his ears hard with snow, then bundles right back to resume his notetaking...
Requiem for a Nun (by William Faulkner) is a journey through the dark night of the soul with a hint of dawn beyond. Its characters do not have the stature for tragedy, yet it is dense with guilt, pity and terror, and it frequently grips the audience in its palm like sinners in the hands of an angry...
...Died. William Frederick ("Willie") Hoppe, 71, courteous, peerless billiard master, a whiz at six who won his first world title (18.1 balkline) at 18, his 51st (three-cushion billiards) at 64, was, for most of his life, the greatest player in the world; of cancer; in Miami Beach...