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Underlying the whole academic effort is a thirst for knowledge. Just the use of English as the medium for all communication presents a challenge. Students read into the small hours--and not to cram for examinations, for the only academic hurdles are voluntary papers suggested by their seminar leaders...
Visitors accustomed to the sharp, snappy shots that cram the pages of picture magazines and camera annuals might wonder why critics rate Stieglitz the greatest artist in the short history of photography. The answer lay in the pictures, but it was not on the surface. Stieglitz had never resorted to trick camera angles and darkroom shenanigans for their own sake, never searched out dramatic subjects. His art called for consistent understatement...
...appearance this week. The Journal is about the size, shape and glossiness of Vogue but has only eight pages, costs a dime, and expects to break even if it sells only 10,000 copies. It is edited by Edward Maher, until recently the editor of Liberty. Maher hopes to cram the Journal with backdoor stuff, chitchat and personality stories. Says he: "When the other papers are covering 'big' developments, we'll be working behind the scenes at the other end of town. What is little to other dailies will be big to us." Editor Maher expects that...
...neglected its original mission: in the first three months of this year, every Senator and all but 13 Representatives consulted its legislative reference service, on subjects ranging from American Indians to atom bombs. The service digs up material for speeches, drafts legislation, sends experts for last-minute, pre-debate cram sessions in congressional boudoirs, and even handles letters from constituents for the legislators. Last year's prize congressional request: to write a poem to celebrate the birth of a taxpayer's triplets...
...made undergraduates liable to disciplinary action if they employed "the services of a commercial tutoring school." Although the battle had been largely won, the system did not die easily. Two days after the ban had been enacted, the Crimson was able to obtain a picture of a Parker-Cramer cram session going full blast. Parker-Cramer promptly filed suit for $55,000 and lost...