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Beside trying to obtain this endowment, Jordan and his administration are faced with problems of physical expansion. The completion since the war of Moors and Holmes Halls has largely eliminated a once-severe shortage of undergraduate housing. In previous years, where a student could live was necessarily a criterion for admission. Now, the increased dormitory space allows any girl who wishes to live at school...

Author: By Richard H. Ullman, | Title: Radcliffe's Jordan: 10 Years in Retrospect | 12/1/1953 | See Source »

Basic to Read's philosophy of art is that there is no essential difference between natural philosophy and aesthetic theory. Specifically, he feels that all artistic expressions should combine the formal unity of classicism with the freedom of the Romantics. He has applied this criterion to his criticism of painting, sculpture, and literature, but feels that his background is insufficient for a detailed commentary on music. Creative efforts of his own are only literary; his imagist poetry has been widely acclaimed and The Green Child, an allegorical novel, is considered brilliant...

Author: By Richard H. Ullman, | Title: "A Very Parfit Gentle Knight" | 11/19/1953 | See Source »

...city manager was green, but he was a fighter and an organizer. He repeatedly defeated blocking efforts of opposition Councilmen; he pulled down the tax rate and attracted more industry to Cambridge; he replaced who-you-know with what-you-know as criterion for city employee advancement as he streamlined municipal administration generally...

Author: By William M. Beecher, | Title: Cambridge Faces Return to Political Dark Ages | 10/29/1953 | See Source »

...both masters noted that the general criterion for allowing freedom in either case is whether the action involved will reflect on the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Masters Conclude Rules Succeeding | 10/29/1953 | See Source »

...mistress Stella hangs on in the party, trying to help the leaders bring Rocco back. But when she is asked to hunt for some damaging "false documents," Stella wonders if the manuscripts really lie. The party man sets her straight; "You know the infallible criterion of the Party: anything that harms Russia is false...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Italian Earnestness | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

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