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Stick ' Randall (Continued from'page one) bers in.^tWs set, being especially effective in hpr rendition of 'Oiseaux, si tous les ans.' In the second half of her program she^tuttied to a series of selections 'fi^ . Schubert. Although she was quUe elegant on all the .numbers from this great master, inclodiiig a Brief exercise in vocal gymnastics ift' 'Die Vogel,' the whole "series was overshadowed by ft magnificenl rendition of 'Nacht ftnd Tttfume.' This song, versed in the slow melancholy often found in Schubfert, was dramatized to perfection by the dynamic treatment of Ijliss, Stich-Randall. Upon interview'with her accompanist after the concert, he commented to the CADET that this was the best performance of this particular number he has heard in his 25 ' years of opera experience. tress come to life through her professional interpretation. For her final selection of the concert. Miss Stich-Randall chose to perform the very difficult 'Vissi d'Arte' from Puccini's 'Tosca.' This selection, a plea for mercy from the operatic singer Tosca, is known for its very wide range and difficult chromatic runs. Needless to say, she handled all those passages in admirable style, thus leaving the audience breathless and standing in ovation for her. The Rockbridge patrons would not be satisfied until Miss Stich- Randall had performed two encores and still were demanding iijore when the house lights were concert. Upon completion of this next week, '^she will return to Vienna and the Vienna State Opera House, whose season is currently in progress. chanqe^ by Bobby Watson This week we have decided to resume our policy of enlightening journalism with a column directed to our most avid readers in the Gorps,vtihe serious scholars. Our news •comes first from College Station, Texas. "The Battalion" of Texas A&M University reported in a recent i.ssue that a group of five intellectual Aggies would meet Ripon College on NBC's "General Electric College Bowl." This, for those few bored engineers who may be reading Exchange Notes, is the old television panel show idea adapted scholastic com- to intercollegiate petition. The five A&M students were chosen from a field of thirty-five and kept in constant training for six months. They took a series of written test, engaged in many oral sessions,! and appeared on •Her final number before intermission, a selection from La Traviata^ was equally excellent in its "presentation. After" the intermission. Miss Stich-Jlandall opened the second half of her concert by turning to Debussy. Thoagh his 'Ariettes Oubliees*^ are riot well known, their impressionistic beauty was immediately pleasing to the audi contest. television to sharpen up for the ence in the Hall. Ripon College is a privte coeducational liberal arts college in For the final portion of her concert. Miss Stich-Randall chal- Wisconsin. The school has a program of cooperation with the ' lenged herself by singing two very - different selections from Puccini. Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Illionis Institute of In the first, a selection from "La Boheme." she made the silent and Technology. Enrollment is less modest love song of a young seam- than a thousand. A&M's five team members (four regulars and an alternate) were, according to The Battalion, "eager, enthusiastic, aggressive, and and intelligent, a fine group of boys with an excellent chance of winning." They lost. From William and Mary comes the certified formula for winning Phi Beta Kappa keys. The Flat Hat recently published a review of "Time Magazine's up-dated mannal no this age-old sport." In the article Time quoted a University of California publication as saying "Grades are your means of getting into gi'aduate school; your '-lit. J LEARN TO BOX ! ! BE A MASTER IN THE ART OF SELF- From' this great success here, DEFENSE. EXPERT TRAINEIRS' SE- JMiss Stich-Randall returns to New CRETS CAN BE YOURS! NO EQUIP- MENT NEEDED. FORM A CAMPUS York City to,do an NBC television BOXING CLUB AMONG YOUR FRIENDS FOR FUN, SELF - CONFIDENCE AND REAL PHYSICAL FITNESS. COMPLETE BROCHURE AND LESSONS ONE DOL- LAR. SEND TO: PHYSICAL ARTS GYM. 363 Clinton Street, Hempstead, Long Island, New York. "ri Quality — Our ^lost Important Product" FAIRFAX FURNITURE, INC. • • I . . . . , , . . 434 W. Lee Highway I ' EAST POINT TAILORING COMPANY East Point, Georgia "Need tailoring? See John Rex personally." The College Inn 'Ready As Every To Serve You and Please You' FAIRFAX, VA. 273-1900 means of keeping your parents happy; your means of avoiding the Army." To get high marks, Time suggests that the student should act "like an interested intellectual," even though his only interest is the grade. Various methods of psychological manipulation of instructors arc discussed. The most elementary is open only to coeds, who may appeal to a professor's sympathy, or vanity (or something). Recent developments are fraternity house dossieurs on professors' eccentricities. These allow more subtle appeals to vanity such as imitation of the teacher's mannerisms and ostentatious devotion to his preferences in reading matter, for example. Giving the professor what he wants on exams is another problem for the grade hunter. Even a VMI liberal artist may testify to that. Time says that here there seems to be a different in "methodology" from East to West. The Harvard "Crimson" asserts that the best way to fool an exam grader is by "use of the vague generality, the artful equivocation, and the overpowering assumption." Western teachers, on the other hand, want other things. An assistant profefssor of English ,at Stanford summarizes thus: "Your only job is to kep me awake. How? BY FACTS. They are what we look for as we skim our lynx eyes over every other page—^a name, a place, an allusion, a brand of deodorant . . ." Well, there you have it. Now we all know how to get good grades. That is, we know how, if weare attending Harvard or Stanford, which we are not. So, presumably we do not know how after all. Oh, well. Virginia House Restaviraiit Lexington, Va. Myers Hardware Company Main Street LEXINGTON, VA. CAREERS FOR V.M.I. GRADUATES With the country's DYNAMIC insurance group owned by Sears. Unlimited opportunities for qualified men in the fields of sales, claim, underwriting, services and other administration. Liberal benefits headed by our famous profitsharing. Write or Visit Us, You're In Good Hands WitJi FOUNDED BY SEARS Allstate Insiiranoe Outlook (Continued from Page 4) into the public image of the news media and seem to survive and flouirsh only on publicity? Obviously, news media build up these personalities to bolster public support. ThLs reflects nothing more than economic necessity in a capitalistic society on me part of the news ihcdia, but the public can hardly escape as relatively unschathed. As the arbiters, at least in part, of what is published, the public must receive the majority of responsibility for such poor examples of journalism. Were the public to refuse to patronize the offender, he would immediately b« destroyed economically. The jour^ nalists, although they should he independent of public preferences, could still refuse to publicize areas of questionable taste. Can there be an effective soll^ tion worked out to this question? An area open to action would appear to be concerted effort in botJi quaintatits of his relatioaship. It the press could tone down or omit references which might be considered in poor taste, and if at the same time action were taken by civic groups to raise the level of public taste, then progress could be made beneficial to both. QnCanps SHOULD AULD {Author of "Rally Round the Flag, Boijs!" and "Barefoot Boy With Cheek.") AND JAZZ LIKE ACQUAINTANCE THAT I am now an elderly gentleman, full of years and aches, but my thoughts keep ever turning to my undergraduate days. Tliie IB called "arrested development." But I cannot stop the healing tide of nostalgia tliat washes over me as I recall those golden campus days, those ivy-covered buildings (actually, at my college, there was only ivy: no bricks), those pulse-tingling lectures on John Dryden and Cotton Mather, the many friends I made, the many deans I bit. I know some of you are already dreading the day when you graduate and lose touch with all your merry classmates. It is my pleasant task today to assure you that it need not be so; all you have to do is join the Alumni Association and every year you will receive a bright, newsy, chatty bulletin, chock-full of tidings about your old buddies. Oh, what a red-letter day it is at my house, the day th« Alumni Bulletin arrives! I cancel all my engagements, take the phone off the hook, dismiss my resident osteopath, put the cheetah outside, and settle down for an evening of pure pleasure with the Bulletin and (need I add?) a good .supply of Marlboro Cigarettes. Whenever I am having fun, a Marlboro makes the fun even more fun. That filter, that flavor, that yielding soft pack, that firm Flip Top box, never fails to heighten my pleasure whether I »m playing Double Canfield or watching the radio or knitting an afghan or enjoying any other diverting pursuit you might name—except, of course, spear fishing. But then, how much •pear fishing does one do in Clovis, New Mexico, where I live? But 1 digress. I^et us. return to my Alumni Bulletin and th« fascinating news about my old friends and classmates. I quot« from the current issue: "Well, fellow alums, it certainly has been a wing-dinger of • year for us old grads! Remember Mildred Cheddar and Harry Camembert, those crazy kids who always held hands in Econ II? Well, they're married now and living in Clovis, New Mexico, where Harry rents spear-fishing equipment, and Mildred has just given |>irth to a lovely 28-pound daughter, her second in fouf months. Nice going, Mildred and Harry 1 "Remember Jethro Brie, the man we voted most likely to •ucceed? Well, old Jethro is still gathering laurels! Last week be was voted 'Motorman of the Year' by his fellow workers in the Duluth streetcar system. 'I owe it all to my brakeman,? liftid Jethro in a characteristically modest acceptance speech. Same old Jethro! "Probably the most glamorous time had by any of us old ulums was had by Francis Maeomber last year. He went on a big game hunting safari all the way to Africa! We received many interesting post cards froia Francis until he was, alas, accidentally shot and killed by his wife and white hunter. Tough luck, Francis! "Wilametta 'Deadeye' Maeomber, widow of the late Moved Francis Maeomber, was married yestertlay to Fred 'Sureshot' Sigafoos, white hunter, in a simple double-ring ceremony ia Kairobi. Many happy returns, Wilametta and J-^red! "Well, alums, that just about wraps it up for this year. Buy bonds!" C 1068 MM ItbuluM ^ in Fine Italian Food Home of the "Muzzi-Boy" Allstate Insurance Companies • Home Offices: Skokie, 111. W. G. LOFTIS 3517 Brandon Rd., S. W. Personal Manager Roanoke, Va. Old frmdt, new prmda, undergrads, mnd non-trad$ all ugrtti ihnt good Richmond tobacco rtcip9, that clean Sel*ctrat» Mar, have turned mil Mtg etatee «f the Vnian into Marlbor0 CVkmIjw. WvH't tfH Jain iha throngf
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