Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reactions to Nikolai Malko's program with the Boston Symphony last week were remarkably consistent in one respect. Almost everyone thought the program as a whole was badly planned...
Other courses of the Commission opening in the first week of February will be: "The History of France Since Napoleon," Assistant Professor Donald C. McKay, Tuesday and Fridays at 7:30 o'clock, starting Feb. 6. Emerson Hall; "Psychology of Personality." Professor Wayland F. Vaughan. Boston University, Mondays and Thursdays 7:30 o'clock, starting Feb. 5, Emerson Hall; and "General Zoology," Assistant professor Frank M. Carpenter, Saturdays at 10 a.m., beginning Feb. 3, at the Biological Laboratories...
...last week's three books about South America, Duncan Aikman's had the greatest value. A "book journalist" who has also done a job on the equally popular subject of America's Chance of Peace (with Blair Bolles), Aikman has a pleasant dislike of what he calls "prescriptioneering" and a healthy sense of the vastness -historical, geographical and human-of his Latin American subject matter. He has a knack for bringing things home; e. g. (of the wonderful Spanish conquest): "It was as if the North American land mass had been explored from Cape Nome to Florida...
With Saradjeff gone there was the problem of finding someone to play the bells. For a while tow professors from Columbia and Smith alternated on successive Sundays (in those days the bells were played every week, if not more often). Mason Hammond '25, associate professor of Classics and History, and at that time head tutor of Lowell House, who had acquired a penchant for playing the bells, performed between times when occasions arose on which it was deemed fitting for the bells to be rung...
This is the second attack on tutoring schools that has come from University Hall during the past week. Previously, the Dean's Office has pointed out the futility and educational harms caused by tutoring...