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...Vicious Pattern. Slender, studious Judge Streit was never much of an athlete himself, but as a five-term assemblyman and a judge for 14 of his 54 years, he knew just where to dig around in the shabby woodwork. Block by block he built up a ringing, 41-page indictment of big-time intercollegiate athletics. Said he: "The exposure before me is only the lifting of the curtain for a small glimpse of intercollegiate football and basketball, fired by commercialism and determination to win at all costs...
...This pattern of plan and vacillation shows through the whole history of the parking problem. It is about time it ended. There are 2,700 cars at the University, and either of the two recent proposals would give a lot of them room on local streets. Neither the fire department nor the snow removal people have ever expressed strong objections to this on-street parking, and garage operators have long denied that they have been pressuring to keep parking places scarce. But while the plans are in the works, police are still busily tagging the cars of students...
...neatly drawn. A smaller "Fish," however, is much more lively because lines forming the skeleton play against lines representing turbulence in the water. The result is a fish which looks alive. Chermayeff's other fish in a large, blue water-color are quite dead and only make a pattern which would look pleasant on a bed-spread. "Breakfast at Sardi's" evokes humor and excitement. Except for two good pen-and-brush nudes, his other contributions. Chermayeff's sense of line and balance, nevertheless, is acute and at times rather pleasing...
...Princeton's director of student aid, "is the one who's going to run the Community Chest in his home town some day ... We want him to be in the top 8% of his class, to be class president, editor of the school paper . . ." Kazmaier fits the pattern: his high school grades were mostly A's and he had been president of his class and of Hi-Y. He got his scholarship -a $400 grant, which falls $200 short of Princeton's tuition fee; he lost it for one term last year because his grades slipped...
...only Crimson win since the war did not fit into the "win or tie at home" pattern. The contest, first after the war, took place at Princeton in 1946 and the visiting Crimson team took it by one conversion...