Word: designate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...field of Romance literature has always been scaled off from the non-specialist, more by its nature than the design of the department's officials. It is a study that demands ability to read French (or Italian or Spanish) in order to get the full benefit from French (or Italian or Spanish) writers. Courses given in English translations would attract large audiences, but many instructors in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures feel strongly that such courses would lose much of the value of literature studies. Moliere in English is still a quasi-Moliere, even in a good translation...
Howard Koeper may know a great deal about architecture, but his attack on the planning and interior decoration of the Lamont Library seems hardly justified in view of its functional success. The architects' lack of imagination is somewhat balanced, as in Littauer and Houghton, by efficient interior design...
...lost some weight, but still talked as big as ever. Appealing a ten-year rap as a major Nazi offender before a court in Munich, he bellowed that the Bund had been strictly "an American patriotic organization," had used the swastika only because it was "an old American Indian design," had patterned its uniforms after the U.S. National Guard rather than the SS. As to his 1944 meeting with Hitler: "Purely a social call. If I went to England today, I would naturally like to call on King George." As a clincher, Kuhn cried: "You don't get justice...
Purpose of the Foundation, whose creation was announced January 13, is to provide funds for student housing, research, and scholarships in the graduate schools of Arts and Sciences, Design, Education, Engineering, and Public Administration...
...group felt, however, that an elected body just wouldn't work in the Yard, maintaining that new freshmen can't get well enough acquainted in two weeks to make an election mean very much. Yet this is an organizational problem, and its solution depends on the proctors, who must design a program of introductory meetings to prepare the incoming class for an election...