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Since the African country involved will pay both a salary and transportation costs, the only remaining expense is the summer training seminar, which would be held in Cambridge, possibly as an adjunct to the summer school...

Author: By C. K. Comstock, | Title: West Nigeria Supports College Teaching Plan | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

...somber slices-of-life, the stark realism of Everett Shinn and George Luks and the darkling canvases of William (Slackens to the airy landscapes of Ernest Lawson and mystical pastorals of Arthur B. Davies. Until the 1908 show, recalled Everett Shinn many years later, "art was only an adjunct of the plush and cut glass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: THE GENTLE REBEL | 10/31/1960 | See Source »

...organization called the International Development Association (IDA) got under way last week and immediately ran into the familiar experience of seeing other nations avert their gaze when the plate was passed. Conceived as a soft-currency adjunct to the World Bank, in which underdeveloped nations may borrow dollars and other hard currencies but can repay in a variety of nonconvertible currencies such as rupees or drachmas, IDA originally was to start with $1 billion in capital. Though the U.S. dutifully subscribed its promised one-third-$320 million-in full, other nations fell short, and IDA last week began with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Give a Hand, Here | 10/10/1960 | See Source »

...gave it wide publicity. The Cubans themselves increased publicity by visiting New York City, Philadelphia, and Washington, where they were received by President McKinley. The hastily-arranged experiment thus proved tremendously successful, and any latent opposition to summer education was quashed. 1900 confirmed the vacation session as a valuable adjunct to the winter terms...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: The Topsy-Like Growth of the Summer School | 7/14/1960 | See Source »

...professor's friend might have been even more surprised at some other changes in recent years in prestigious Radcliffe College (1,773 girls), the women's adjunct down the street from Harvard. Starting in World War II, when " 'Cliffies" first began invading Harvard lecture rooms, togetherness has been creeping ahead until today the two schools are more coeducational than not. The girls take their exams with Harvard students, and some share the same tutorial sessions. Radcliffe's president is invited to Harvard's monthly meeting of deans, and for the first time Harvard is represented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Togetherness in Cambridge | 5/30/1960 | See Source »

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