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Casting is complete, sets are being built, and rehearsals are now in progress for the Dramatic Club's first American ply in six years, Maxwell Anderson's "Winterset," which opens a split week at Brattle Hll May 2. Last HDC home grown production was Eugene O'Neill's "The Great God Brown" in the spring...
...pile, a rather simple device, consists of uranium rods stuck through a large mass of graphite. Some uranium atoms-those with an atomic weight of 235-split in two, producing energy and shooting out neutrons, which are subatomic particles with zero electric charge. These are the lifeblood of the pile...
After the Great Exodus of the spring of '43 (when the future was viewed in terms of khaki and navy blue and what-the-hell), it got so quiet in the, little redbrick building on the one-way cowpath, 14 Plympton Street, you could hear a split-infinitive drop. Most of the Crimeds had gone off to the wars, leaving behind them something they'd started as a weekly to serve naval and military personnel, something they now hoped whole be able to publish the news of the whole University twice a week; something called the Harvard Service News...
...churchmen, Bishop Manning seems only a split hair's breadth this side of Rome. He campaigned to change (he might say "restore") the Church's name from Protestant Episcopal to "Catholic & Apostolic," drew many an ecclesiastical brickbat for declaring in 1930: "The conception of the ministry held by the Protestant Churches is in important respects different from that held by the Episcopal Church. The Episcopal Church holds the Catholic doctrine of the priesthood. . . . The unbroken order of the episcopate coming down to us from apostolic times is the visible, living witness of God's coming into this...
...even if people stayed the way they were, their actions remained incomprehensible. "I have knew mens," said Berenice, "to fall in love with girls so ugly that you wonder if their eyes is straight. . . . I have knew womens to love veritable Satans and thank Jesus when they put their split hooves over the threshold." Nevertheless, Berenice decided: "What you ought to begin thinking about is a beau. . . . A nice little white boy beau." "What would I do with one?" demanded F. Jasmine. "Do, Foolish? Why, make him treat you to the picture show. For one thing...