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...kids might read while the big screen is dark. Among his suggestions for seven-to-twelve-year-olds: A Child's Garden of Verses, Hawthorne's Wonder-Book, Pilgrim's Progress, Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels, Swiss Family Robinson, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Just So Stories, Ivanhoe, the Lambs' Tales from Shakespeare, Tom Sawyer, and Treasure Island. For the 13-year-olds and up: Lady of the Lake, The Call of the Wild, David Copperfield, Huckleberry Finn, Lays of Ancient Rome, A Tale of Two Cities, Idylls of the King, Westward Ho!, Lorna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Invitation Only | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

...blue jeans, grunted directions in a good humored way, as a crew of students festooned the large gallery in Robinson Hall with his unusual sculpture. When everything was finally in place, Calder thanked his helpers individually and then disappeared with friends, leaving a small group still gaping at the wonderland before their eyes...

Author: By Lowell J. Rubin, | Title: Alexander Calder | 5/19/1955 | See Source »

...industrial diamonds. One third the size of the U.S., it is a hot, humid, fecund basin drained by a river system second only to the Amazon in volume. In the east lies Ruanda-Urundi, where the seven-foot Watussi live; in the south lies Katanga, the metalliferous wonderland that fronts on Rhodesia and is the site of Shinkolobwe, the world's richest uranium mine. Between is the timeless jungle (48% of the Congo is forested), with beetles the size of pigeons, dwarf antelope no bigger than terriers, bearded Pygmies with humplike buttocks who hunt the rare okapi (half antelope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGO: Boom in the Jungle | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

This is the latest step in a chain of events which earlier saw Radcliffe eject the Children's Theatre from Agassiz because the director and two co-producers of its recent "Alice in Wonderland" netted $312 apiece from the show. This profit making jeopardized the tax-free status of the College...

Author: By L.thomas Linden, | Title: Children's Theatre Group Adopt Non-Profit Standing | 4/21/1955 | See Source »

Radcliffe officials will probably threw the University Children's Theatre out of Agassiz today. Dean of Residence Emily B. Lacey '49 has called an immediate meeting with the board of directors of the group, two of whose members plus the show directors for "Alice in Wonderland" earned $312 apiece from the production...

Author: By L.thomas Linden, | Title: Children's Theatre Players May Forfeit Use of Agassiz | 4/14/1955 | See Source »

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