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...mirror of the city-states' violent dealings with each other. Finally, the Hellenes united against the Persians, and even this alliance (the Confederacy of Delos, founded in 478 B.C.) was characteristically betrayed when the Athenians rifled the common treasury. This act offers Historian Toynbee an interesting and ironic sidelight. The Athenians used the funds to stave off mass unemployment by building public works. Thus the monuments that crown the Acropolis testifying to the glory that was Greece are actually the result of a kind of grandiose PWA project subsidized with stolen funds...
...faculty and the administration are interested in maintaining History and Lit as more than an amorphous sidelight for several departments, some system of permanent appointments would seem to be in order. Since F. O. Matthiessen's death in 1950, there has been no Professor of History and Literature, and senior professors concerned with the field--like Perry Miller--are too pressed by departmental commitments to pay more than nominal attention to History...
Class also brought fresh impact to its sidelight on the plight of the teacher who is so underpaid that he must find an extra job. In a faculty bull session one teacher remarked to a colleague: "Somebody told me at one time you were pumping gas and one of your students came in and asked for a tankful. How did you feel about it?" The reply: "Well, that doesn't happen very often, but it does bother you. I mean, they want you to wash the windowshield and check the oil-things like that. They give you the full...
...interesting sidelight of the meet was provided by third-place Dunster. In all, a total of 82 men took part in both the field and running events. Thirty-five were from Dunster...
...interesting sidelight to Saturday's Adams Cup race is the fourth entrant--Navy's famous "Admirals" who resumed drilling together only this April. The 1956 Olympic crew picture still is cloudy, and this race may well determine which of four or five Eastern eights are in contention...