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...this point conductors Arthur Fiedler and Harry Ellis Dickson took over. They swung the orchestra into the semiclassics, the nostalgic songs of the years when 1930 was young, and finally riotously outrageous parodies of current pop hits, including an assassination of "Davy Crockett...
...learn trades. For, as Higgins, a former stoker, puts it: "Education an' qualification an' distinction is the order o' de day." Higgins is heading for a cooks' school, hopes to wind up in the galley of the Queen Mary. Collis wants to be a writer. Dickson expects to get a teaching job. But one Trinidadian, known simply as Strange Man, scoffs at education as a "rope they givin' you to hang yuhself wid." His own reason for emigrating is simple: "Well, 'tis simply because ah little tired. Ah sick, bored." London, for these island...
Behind Volpe, at six and five in the "engine room," are Bruce Dixon and Dick Weatherhead, two of the strongest and heaviest men on the squad. But Dickson didn't start rowing till last season, while Weatherhead is a convert from Harvey Love's heavies. Wilde also has another newcomer in Jack Henshaw...
...have been at Cornell almost since the beginning. Evidently Ezra Cornell an Andrew Dickson White had it in their heads all the time to admit women to study at their college, although they were afraid to ask the state legislature to charter a co-educational university--that sort of thing just wasn't done in the East at the time. At any rate, they were careful to see that the charter did not specifically forbid co-education...
Cornell pioneered among Eastern colleges in introducing the elements of technical and vocational training into higher education along side the liberal arts. One of the aims of the guiding spirits behind the establishment of the school, Western Union magnate Ezra Cornell and first president Andrew Dickson White, was to create an institution in which "any person could study any subject...