Word: advent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...graduate students, the Department of Fine Arts does not orient its instruction to the undergraduate; Fine Arts 13 (employing a historical, rather than interpretive, approach), along with a few studio courses, was the only introduction to the subject geared to the interests of the non-concentrator until the advent, two years ago, of Fine Arts 14, which, according to the course announcement, emphasizes "such considerations as style, quality, and authenticity . . ."; because of the threatened discontinuation of this relatively new course, it is implied that all-concentrators will be at the mercy of the "middle level courses, open both to graduate...
With the opening of the Houses, a new era began. The advent of an efficient system of cooking and distributing food produced an immediate improvement in the student disposition. The dining hall system, which now includes the Union and three graduate school units, has blossomed into a $3 million annual business, which last year supplied 3,295,969 meals to the University...
...With the advent of the Harvard National Scholarships, the scholarship stipend, once merely the difference between resources and expenses, became a bid for talent as college administrators started competing for future "Who's Who" candidates. Financial need became secondary during an abusive competition for future success. Like middle aged ladies at an auction, the schools matched bid against bid for promising prizes. Highly sought high school seniors could almost sit back and take their choice of the bids, while needier classmates, also college material, had all too often to be content with an acceptance but no stipend from a college...
...from every sampan as the LSTs bearing 14.000 Chinese P.W.s from Korea nosed into the gaily decorated pier. Flag-waving thousands lined the 20-mile route to Taipei; firecrackers were so thick that the prisoners waving from their trucks were often hidden in haze. Premier Chen Cheng proclaimed "the advent of doomsday" for Communist China's rulers, and posters urged ACCELERATE PREPARATIONS FOR COUNTERATTACK...
...released last week, showed a drop of 1.7% for major-league baseball, with all eight clubs in the American League down from last year and only three of the eight in the National League (Dodgers, Phillies and the transplanted Braves) doing better. Football, for the first time since the advent of television on a national scale, showed an increase: 2.05%. Biggest gain of the year: harness racing, which, despite fall scandals...