Word: objects
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Prospective concentrators in the field, which includes Scandinavian languages and literature, should not enter it with the object of gaining training in linguistics. Comparative Philology is the field for that. German concentrators, after several preliminary language courses such as German A, German C, or German H, will spend most of their time with literature. German 50 is the best introductory literature course for those unsure of their German. Students with confidence in their reading ability can go into German 75. The last course is less interesting than the first because of the material it covers, but it provides an excellent...
...radio program asks contestants to represent something or someone, then answer questions pertinent to the personality of that object. Wearing a pair of book covers and a monacle, Colman appears as the Encyclopedia Britannica. He answers his first questions and wins the program's limit, $160. Rather than take the money he asks for a chance to appear again risking the money in the double or nothing procedure...
...sends out radio "noise," but not very much of it, considering its size and nearness (93 million miles). Far more interesting are a number of mysterious "point sources" scattered around the sky. More than 30 have been found so far. They do not correspond to any object that shines with visible light. They appear to be very distant and perhaps as big as stars. They must be peculiar stars, however, for apparently they send out 100 million times as much radio energy...
...significant plank in the platform was a disavowal of the group's initial intention to abolish the Council. A "genuine and representative Student Council, which will speak for the students and not dictate to them" is the new object of the committee...
...London and Dr. Caprio have found that the deviations from what modern society considers normal are legion. Almost any common object or experience, they believe, can be tinged with sexual excitement for some individual. Prosecutors have long known that firebugs are often unbalanced and get sexual satisfaction from watching either the fire itself or the extinguishers. Even shoplifters, according to the Washington psychiatrists, are often sexually abnormal, and pilfer objects with some obscure sexual significance (e.g., women who steal fountain pens, men who take gloves...