Word: classing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both a faculty committee and a Student Council committee issued reports at the meeting on investigations of the College scholarship facilities that were begun early in the fall. Each report stressed that under no circumstances should the proportion of scholarship students in each class fall below 20 percent...
...Council voted 7 to 6 in favor of giving financial support to a Class of 1950 dance
...have customarily given scholarship assistance to about twenty percent of the Freshman class, and to a large number of these men and others in the upperclass year, as far as our financial resources would permit. Since the war, of course, many undergraduates have been helped by the voterans' programs. Even so, to meet the level of costs it has been necessary for us to use some of our accumulated wartime surpluses in scholarship funds. These surpluses are now disappearing, and we must seek new sources of financial assistance if we are not to cut back substantially our numbers of Scholarship...
This is a simple story of a New York boy of middle-class background who becomes a poet, sails to South America and back on a freighter, has a love affair with a girl in Greenwich Village, and goes to Paris. It is one more report on that special subdivision of the American Dream in which poets, artists, musicians and other emancipated spirits defy the Philistines, have love affairs without tears, and go forth alone to meet a hostile and uncomprehending world...
...Literature? include a long one on the situation of the writer in various epochs. Written with Sartre's characteristic energy and the faint overtones of sounder sense that he has acquired since World War II and the French resistance, it places his own writing in the same class with the work of André Malraux and Antoine de St. Exupéry-Frenchmen of action, compelled to do their work in a time of disintegrating values when any act had to be its own justification. Thus he seems to write an apologia for such books as Nausea as having...