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Certain adjustments were necessary when her family moved from Lawrence to Harvard, but Mrs. Pusey asserts that "I have no generalizations to offer about the Mid-West and the East. There are differences, none of them shocking, and most of them superficial. I think it may be easier for a youngster who wants to study to do so here, without having to hide it. And the old prep school myth--what they used to call 'lack of serious-mindedness'--doesn't seem to be true...
Shortly after Sputnik I went up, a survey of first-and second-year college students in the Mid-west revealed that 10 per cent of them were not aware that Russia had launched a satellite...
...Greek tragedy, in Greek. At the same time, teams of CRIMSON editors were gathering information in the South for a twelve-page feature survey of university racial integration. WHRB was already readying its transmitters for adaptation to frequency modulation, the Debate Council had four teams travelling through the mid-west, and forty-five singers of the Glee Club were in rehearsal for an eight week summer concert tour of Europe...
Loss of the Cambridge Drama Festival comes as a major setback for theater at Harvard. Not only did it provide the Summer School and the Cambridge community with dramatic entertainment of the highest order, but the Festival attracted devotees from all over New England and the Mid-West. The Cambridge Drama Festival permitted a full-year cycle of theater here, activity which was formerly restricted to the school year...
Teele pointed out that like movements have been started in the past, and have made no progress, since they would be hurting the large and powerful farmers' co-operatives in the Mid-West...