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When it is said that the "branch of the department devoted to design and actual drawing is isolated and disconnected from everything else," can it be that someone is ignorant of the function of Fine Arts 1a (of which Professor Feild was a part last year), or does he choose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 2/18/1939 | See Source »

Aside from the clash of personalities inevitably involved in a case of this sort, Professor Feild's concluding appointment is the result of a fundamental difference of opinion within the department. At present, overwhelming stress is laid on the historical and factual approach to the Fine Arts. Students are filled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A TALE OF SIX | 2/17/1939 | See Source »

The other night, according to Sergeant Donelan, a car owned by a Missouri boy in Dunster House was found parked on the Esplanade; inside was Stanley Williams, a Negro commonly seen around the Square, with two 15-year-old colored girls. He also had a rubber tube with which he...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student's Car Host to Negro Necking Party--Thief in Jail | 11/23/1938 | See Source »

The "too late to abologize" anecdote (labeled in TIME'S story as probably apocryphal) has been told of more than one conductor, including Toscanini. But Toscanini is the most improbable choice. Reason: his English, at its coolest, is limited, expletive, disconnected. In a tantrum he invariably erupts molten Italian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 7, 1938 | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

Although based on an indifferent, disjointed Fannie Hurst plot, which would normally dawdle listlessly from one episode to another, "Four Daughters" is a fine, almost a great picture. This is primarily because it uses brilliantly these disconnected incidents and scenes to create the indefinable and intangible something commonly called "mood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

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