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Despite occasional blemishes in the performance and somewhat unfavorable comparison with the Society's brilliant performances in past years, the 1945 production provided a thoroughly enjoyable evening which demands only further exploration into other pre-classic masterpieces...
...There was much more than "strain" connected with the "Titanic" tragedy which caused the death of Harry Elkins Widener, from whom the University received a valuable book and manuscript collection. His gift contained the stipulation that a suitable building be provide, whereupon his mother donated the columned hall. In comparison to this, the $1,500,000 gift of Thomas W. Lamont '92 was revealed in a casual note. And to this, with the same manipulation of zeros, another $1,500,000 will be added as a book and maintenance fund...
Under the Combined Food Board (Canada, U.S., Britain), each country had undertaken "to make its best contribution to the common problems," King continued. Then he made a pointed comparison: "The United States, in exporting less than 5% of its meat supplies, may be able to manage its program through 'set aside' orders without rationing, and still be able to maintain fair distribution and fair prices. ... In Canada we could not, without rationing, export between 40 and 50% of our federally inspected [one-third the total] kill and maintain orderly distribution and hold our ceiling prices...
Halfback Davis has far too much leg drive to suffer comparison with such outstanding scat-backs as Yale's Albie Booth. Nor is he comparable to snake-hipped Red Grange. Junior carries a special kind of speed that is all his own. After a brief show of hippiness, enough to get around the end, he simply leans forward and sprouts wings. Once outside, he makes would-be tacklers look ridiculous as they try to cope with his speed, his willowy change of pace and starchy stiff arm. He has gained a grand total of 1,777 yards...
This number, which represents more than a three-fold increase over the spring term attendance, remains considerably below the normal peace time figure of 1200 to 1300 students, comparison with past records reveals...