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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Chaucerians: the date of Chaucer's Troilus and Crlseyde. Dean Root was struck by the passage: "The bente moone with hire homes pale,†Saturne, and Jove, in Cancro joyned were . . ." No astronomer, Dean Root suspected that such a conjunction of Saturn, Jupiter and the moon was no common occurrence. He was right: for the first time in 600 years, the planets had come together in the sign of Cancer in 1385. That, concluded Root, to the general applause of Chaucerians, was the year Chaucer wrote his story...
...understanding and faith in human relationships. Its sale of more than 50,000 copies put it in the bestseller class. And another Briton, Christopher Fry, showed in The Lady's Not for Burning that the English language can still sing and shine and that poetry can speak the common tongue with humor as well as compassion...
Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, will give his annual reading of Charles Dickens' "Christmas Carol" tonight in the Union Upper Common Room as the feature attraction of the Union's Christmas Party for freshmen...
Sixteen year old freshmen may be common in the College if plans of the New York State Board of Regents are adopted...
...remarked, however, that a continued manpower shortage might put the college back on the three term schedule it maintained during World War II when acceleration was a common practice in going through College...