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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Each girl is allowed only two cuts per quarter; more than that she must make up. This ensures a minimum required amount of exercise. But other rules require girls who do not make up cuts within two weeks to repeat the entire quarter in their junior year; this seem unduly harsh. Conflicts with courses or appointments may make it almost impossible to fit in extra gym classes within a short period, especially when a sport meets only two or three times a week...
...even more illogical to flunk girls who have missed some gym classes or failed to make up cuts because of sickness or injury. Yet there are several cases of girls who repeated one or more entire quarters of gym because they spent the wrong days in the Radcliffe Health Center. A few bad breaks can keep a girl on the playing-fields till she gets her diploma...
...authorities should recognize that athletics competes for time with classes and other activities; they should make it easier to fulfill requirements. They can accept medical excuses for absences more readily, and allow girls to make up cuts throughout the quarter or the term; both practices work well at Harvard. A few such reforms can make regular exercise less painful, and no less beneficial, for the girls...
...Band also re-played its Ivy League Album numbers last night and set them on tape. Twelve thousand printings have worn down the master records, and the group had to make new masters before re-issuing the album this fall...
Only a producer extremely confident of his ability would dare to make a full-length documentary of Michelangelo's life and work in which not one actor appears. Robert J. Flaherty, who filmed the Arctic classic, "Nanook of the North," is evidently a man with the necessary confidence; the fact that "The Titan" is both an artistic and popular success is proof that he has not deceived himself...