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...Folger's players, who had to use the Folger's boiler room as overflow dressing quarters, were The Masquers of Amherst College, alma mater of the library's late founder, Oil Millionaire Henry Clay Folger. As a London director of 1600 would have it, they performed without sets, in frilly Elizabethan costumes instead of Roman togas. One non-authentic touch: girls were cast in the two feminine roles. The program explained: "We have somehow lost the knack of training juveniles to play female parts...
Sargent, who makes sniping at his alma mater an annual feature of his widely distributed prop-school guide, has been unable to provoke University officials, but his complaints have been splashed all over the Boston press and "Time...
...same situation holds in higher education, and "the higher, the worser," says Sargent. Worst of all U.S. universities, he insists, is his own alma mater, Harvard. "There is a hopelessness, a futility about life, a transparent pretense on the part of the fat boys, a feeling of despair on the part of those who still retain some consciousness of an honest past . . ." The reason: "The Corporation through its stooges" has gradually taken control of the administration and faculty alike...
After his playing days were over, Wild Bill had become a coach; two years ago, he came back to his alma mater. By last week he had made a perfect record-19 uninterrupted defeats. Every time the word football came up, his friends thoughtfully changed the subject...
...train rolled on to Jackson, Mich., where the power & glory of the state's Republicanism-Senators Arthur Vandenberg and Homer Ferguson, Governor Kim Sigler-appeared. So did Mrs. George Dewey, the candidate's mother, whom he calls "Mater." She cried.: "Where's my Tommy?" With one arm around Mater and one around his wife, the candidate stood on the rear platform. "Was there ever such a lucky man as I am?" he asked the train-side crowd. "I have a wonderful mother and a wonderful wife and they are both here with...