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...season in their history by dinner tonight. Columbia is pulling all stops, however. Last night at Barnard there was a sock hop, and Frankie Avalon was there with Conway Twitty. If the Lions can pull out a win today, these sock hops could well become weekly affairs, ergo, as commonplace as losing. Oddly enough, Columbia's sports news office has started sending out fencing information, rather than football, and one wonders if the Light Blue has given up on the grid season, Meanwhile, a football renaissance is occurring at Brown, where the Bruins are hungry for a second consecutive...
...Public Theater, it suffers from the dramatic deficiencies common to other people's dreams-the characters are unreal, the tension is nonexistent, and the humor is heavy. So, too, is the symbolism, for which Producer Papp seems to have a weakness, as in his last season's Ergo and The Memorandum...
...exercise in the use of logical fallacies at the Faculty Meeting of 4 February. How grand it was to witness a pedagogical display of the honorable non sequitur, the venerable syllogism (in the sense of "a subtle, specious, or crafty argument"), the abundance of ad hominems and post hoc, ergo propter hoc's. "Eloquent" was the evaluation made by one speaker for the pedants who preceded him. No wonder Professor Beer trembles twice for his colleagues. Many, many thanks for an enlightening exposure to "academic freedom...
...each drop of Greek blood that he can find in the veins of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, formerly a Prince of Greece [Nov. 1]. "Phil the Greek" aside, the Greek royal family is a junior branch of the Danish royal house, which is mostly North German in origin. Ergo, Philip is not one of your restaurant Greeks be cause he is not of Greek descent - as Mr. Rudd will have...
Progressive Will. Making his valedictory address as the chancellor of U.C.L.A., Franklin Murphy noted that past generations had accented learning and achievement but ignored feeling, while the philosophy of '68 seems to be based on "sentio ergo sum-I feel, therefore...