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...carry five courses including philosophy and government. "The general education plan," she said, "seems like the best way to get your distribution credit. Here I am concentrating in Physics and having to go over the fine points of Gov 1. while 1 might be getting a good solid background in the social sciences with the new system...
Singled out for plaudits were Norman Walkins, who hails from Hawaiian waters, and Arty Phinney, an ex-Exeterite. Paul Killoran, unique in his non-service background also flashed considerable speed. Killoran was a member of a Sandusky, Ohio, aggregation that won the state championships last year...
Gerhart Eisler-Berger has the background and the intellectual equipment for the role of The Brain. He and sister Ruth were the children of a Viennese scholar-philosopher. Gerhart was one of the founders of Austria's Communist Party. In Germany, in the early '20s, he and sister Ruth were at the top of opposing Red factions-she the flamboyant leader of the violent revolutionaries, he the quiet theoretician of the "reconcilers...
Speaking in the New Lecture hall at 7:30 o'clock both nights, President Conant will talk-on "The Strategy and Taoties of Science." He will propose a new method by which the historical background of scientific progress could more readily be grasped by laymen, as a step toward achieving a more unified democratic culture in America...
There is a certain plodding honesty about the first three scenes which is not obscured by the artificial recapitulation of the whole background of the characters in the opening minutes of the play, nor by the precipitate introduction of the battle over the soul of Borkman's son between his aunt and his mother. What rob these scenes of any real force are nor Ibsen's crudities, but the mistakes made by Eva LeGallienne in her several capacities of director, producer, translator and actress. First of all, she has chosen to reduce the play to a five-scene, non-stop...