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Instead, staunch Critic Smith laid about the field with renewed energy. He had kind words for some-Composer Benjamin Britten, Conductor Sir Malcolm Sargent. But he found the acoustics of the new hall built for the Festival of Britain "harsh" and "unlovely. One felt like rushing out to seek the relative quiet of Waterloo Station." Last week, while Britons raged, he wound up his four-week critical series with a sermon...
...Thomas Bond thought that the thriving city of Philadelphia (pop. 15,000) should have a general hospital. When he tried to raise money for one, he was asked constantly: "Have you consulted Franklin? What does he think of it?" Bond finally went to Benjamin Franklin, and it was well that he did. Foxy Ben Franklin conceived the idea of matching private subscriptions with public funds; he lured both citizens and legislators with the bait that the others would put up equal sums. It worked...
Confinement in Cells. But the hospital was born with a split personality, and much of its effort has been devoted to the care of "lunaticks." As early as 1789 (before the Englishman Tuke and the Frenchman Pinel began the reform of bedlams), Dr. Benjamin Rush complained that his treatments of the mentally ill were "rendered abortive by the cells of the hospital . . . Few patients have ever been confined in these cells who have not been affected by a cold . . . Several have died of consumption." He recommended "more wholesome apartments," and they were soon provided...
Voting will be by preferential ballot, according to Benjamin F. MacDonald '52, chairman of the council election committee. The candidates will also be limited to $10 expenses and may only half one poster display in the Union...
John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, will give the Commencement address at Smith College this year, D. Benjamin F. Wright, president, announced yesterday...