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...dancers had rehearsed for months. On the eve of their premiere performance, they worked nearly twelve hours, dancing on into the night. In the basement of their three-story studio, a tailor and six seamstresses attacked a stack of white tutus: the ballerinas had danced so hard for so long that their costumes no longer fitted them. Then the lights went down in George Washington University's Lisner Auditorium, and Washington got its first glimpse last week of the National Ballet Company-the city's first professional resident troupe...
...mile invitational relay should also materialize after the meet. A team consisting of former Crimson track star Don Kirkland, his brother John, Yale's Jim Stack, and Charles Durant will run against the present record-holding Harvard team...
Reforms have been limited by Buck's desire to keep the library's research collection, especially the stacks in Widener, "in a classified arrangement of shelves open to scholars." Although stack passes are required for the central collection, the report contrasts Widener to most other research libraries, which allow direct access only to their staffs...
...increase in Widener's stack capacity would be about 300,000 books. New faculty studies, photo-laboratories, and a micro-print reading room, all air-conditioned, are included in the design. As planned, the addition would enclose 24,000 square feet of floor space...
...acknowledge that in more than occasional cases students not forced to finish it would not do so. (That they can finish it without going mad is clearly shown by the fact that they have done so.) Besides, there is more at stake for the large departments even than a stack of possibly excellent unwritten theses: the administrative problem involved in re-employing deserted tutors looks overwhelmingly more burdensome than the difficulties the Faculty earlier envisioned in dealing with arbitrary departments...