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Radcliffe has always been a source of chagrin to the Harvard faculty, and the recent tussle over tutors has brought "those things which divide us" into the open once again. There have been grumblings about Radcliffe's lack of initiative in seeking its own tutors, about its parasitism on the House system, and about the load of non-resident tutors forced onto the Houses...
Many of the not-so-good tutorials in the sophomore year seem to occur at the outposts of the Harvard-Radcliffe camps. All-girl tutorials with a woman tutor, especially in a "masculine" field such as Government, often lack the gusto necessary to valuable discussion. On the other hand, many all-male group tutorials degenerate into beer and cheer sessions, where the tutors is "one of the boys" and becomes less responsible. There are some defenders of House privacy who argue that a breezy informality is a necessary prerequisite of learning, but the weight of evidence would indicate that...
After the Reds proclaimed their shortlived ceasefire, the villagers emerged from underground, and farmers went back to the fields to harvest what was left of their millet, sweet potatoes and peanuts. "If there is a lack of anything," Red China's Defense Minister Marshal Peng Teh-huai broadcast to the people of Quemoy, "just tell us and we shall give it to you. It is time now to turn from foe to friend...
...More money is paid elsewhere. "I worked on a movie," said Miller, "and made exactly the compromises that I was forced to make in TV-except that I made them for a lot more money." ¶ Queasy sponsors want "happy shows for happy people." Lack of artistic freedom ("I'm the lost soul of you chappies") drove Chayevsky to Hollywood. "I didn't make hardly any money out of the movie Marty," he rumbled. "But we had a ball and it was fun." As examples of what TV -"a malevolent juggernaut that's gonna chew...
Traditional occasions are so often painful affairs, making up in nostalgia what they lack in every other area, that it was a double pleasure to attend one which was, on its own merits, as enjoyable as last Friday evening's concert. The annual serenade by the Yale and Harvard Glee Clubs on the night before The Game was once again a rousing success...