Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Graduate students who received Bowdoin Prizes ($600) were Richard M. Ohmann 6G, in the Humanities, for "Prose Style: The Theoretical Background;" Paul Seaver 3G, in Social Studies, for "James Anthony Froude: An Excursion into Nineteenth Century Historiographical Controversy;" and Allen G. Debus 2G, Natural Sciences, for "The Introduction of the 'New Phisicke' in Elizabethan England...
...death of a University employee two years ago, a compensation ruling by the Industrial Accident Board, and a long series of legal appeals are the background for a pending Massachusetts Supreme Court decision which may have "a vital effect" on employment policies both at the University and elsewhere in the Commonwealth...
Mulder and Mortensen's Among the Mormons is an excellent example of this new objectivity. Although both the editors are Mormon in background, they have written a book whose tone is remarkably detached...
...history setup in the city's high schools, the committee observed: "We note with regret that World History is no longer required, however valuable the course in 'Contemporary Problems' may be. It is difficult to see how students can give mature consideration to contemporary problems without background in history apart from American History." Foreign-language teaching starts out well, ends badly: "The elective Spanish courses offered to the more able students beginning at the seventh-grade level seem to be well presented as a living language. The senior high school courses seem to be presented more mechanically...
...Davis did put Heinz's "57" into his work, in disguise. In the lower left portion there is a scrambled 1957, thus: 1922. This, says Davis, represents "the year it was painted, the year the building went up, and 57 Varieties." In place against its white plastic panel background, the mural is what Architect Bunshaft calls "a real head-snapper." Says pleased Preserver Heinz: "Exactly what we wanted. It gives vitality to the whole room...