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Since the establishment of the formalized Ivy League, all-star football games have had to exist without the doubtless splendor of Ivy athletes. The motive behind this ruling is a part of the concept that lies behind the Ivy Group as a whole--"that players...be permitted to enjoy the game as participants in a form of recreational competition rather than as professional performers in public spectacles." But recently the Student Councils at Cornell, Brown, and Harvard have asked that the League relax the ban against post-season participation...
...American concept of leisure time should be changed from the days of the 50 hour week. Once extra time was only for sleep and rest from work, but the rapid approach of a 30 hour week means that a person should have a fundamental activity outside his employment, he said...
...antiquated concept of law, pedestrians in this state now have a prior right to the highway," according to Robert S. Kretschmar, Massachusetts director of the AAA and originator of one of the bills. "The motorist and the pedestrian should have equal responsibility," he added...
...Germany, his painting owes little to German expressionism. Its technique is borrowed from Paris cubism; its architectonic spirit relates to Gothic churches and Bach fugues; its cool severity seems a personal reflection of modern engineering. Says U.C.L.A. Art Gallery Director Frederick Wight: Feininger "unlearned the last century's concept of [space as] a three-dimensional void. Instead, he gradually makes a clearing around the object through a series of projections. Feininger's object-with which he begins-grows outward; it grows as a crystal grows, organizing space according to its own nature...
...Baron), a beauty who spends her time quizzing kids on the Bible (Eleanor Powell), a couple who have been ideally married for 30 years (the Sam Goldwyns). There was no telling how many fascinating residents were considered and rejected for the show as not fitting a phony and tedious concept...