Word: keep
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Office system, which is badly overburdened. As a consequence, students who need Dean's Office attention very often get nothing more personal than a stock 15 minute lecture from an unfamiliar assistant dean. The function of coordinating the House's tutorial activity also looks laudable. It will help to keep the undergraduate seminars active and free from uninterested students and incapable instructors...
...greatest problem in to keep the Board a living part of the Harvard administration; there were times of controversy when the Overseers' approval or rejection was their most vital function. Now these somewhat-negative and limited duties are less important...
...kept trying to pick the ball up until finally Middle Captain Tom Bakke broke through and recovered the ball. It was a key play, and Pollard handled it poorly, but then army backs are taught to pick up loose balls and gain a few yards rather than merely keep possession...
Died. Sir Archibald Dennis Flower, 85, who made a career of memorializing Shakespeare; in Stratford upon Avon. As chairman (since 1900) of the Trustees and Guardians of Shakespeare's Birthplace and of the town's Shakespeare Memorial Theater (1900-46), Sir Archibald hoped to keep the theater pure and local ("Visiting stars? Over my dead body!"), surrendered to professionalism in 1946 when outside Shakespearian actors were brought in as guests...
...ostensibly to stage the cadet corps' annual show, actually to lure the producer's singing nephew (Gordon MacRae) from an Army career to show business. Brass-baiting ex-G.I. Cagney rags the cadets so energetically that the corps makes him a plebe for a while to keep him on a leash-and, of course, to teach him to love West Point the hard way. From there on, the film drags in Flirtation Walk, the honor system, the show-must-go-on, a pretentious cantata celebrating the Academy and such production-number props as the U.S. flag. Through...