Word: birkbeck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Germany's greatest painter? Half a century ago, the title would have been disputed among Albrecht Diirer, Lucas Cranach and Hans Holbein the Younger. Now Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born head of the History of Art Department at London University's Birkbeck College, unhesitatingly comes out for the 16th century Gothic master whom critics have long called Matthias Griinewald...
Others named are Robert M. O'Clair 4G of Kirkland house and Cambridge, to study at Birkbeck College, London University; Burton E. Pike 1G of Perkins Hall and Newton Center, to study at the University of Strasbourg; and Andrew J. Posey, Jr. 2G of 4 Greenough Ave. and Yonkers, N.Y., to study at Tokyo University...
...autumn term began, its enrollment included one-fourth (18,-283) of all England's full-time university students. And the University of London is still expanding to absorb more of Britain's new generation of students. In Bloomsbury, the last daubs of paint are being slapped on Birkbeck College (for evening classes), and nearby the steel girders for a new student union are already in place. "We have it in our power," says Principal Douglas W. Logan, "to create in London a center of humanistic studies such as no city in the world can boast...