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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exhibition of paintings by Matisse, Derain, Picasso, and Bracque is explained by the fact that their work will be included in the display of the Fogg Museum, inasmuch as these artists fall on the border line between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Directors hope to have by the end of the week a complete list of the works which will constitute the display...
...every university in America awaits reports with eagerness. For there are many intensely serious problems that present themselves. How, for instance, will the men be selected to occupy the various small social units? The purpose of the plan being avowedly a social improvement over the present conditions, will this end be better attained by segregating men with one dominating interest, or shall a cross section of college life be sought? If instituted at Yale, would the undergraduate rebel against attempts to separate him from his friends? For the theory of the small college entails complete absorption in the life...
Contrary to a previous decision, the open end of the Harvard Stadium will be filled this fall by temporary steel stands, it was announced last night by W. J. Bingham '16, Director of Harvard Athletics. The problem of seating the Harvard football crowds, which has been pressing since the condemnation of the old wooden structure used at Soldiers Field for a score of years, has reached a solution for the present at least. The approval of the Harvard Corporation has been secured, and Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch and Abbott, architects, are now engaged on the plans...
...decision announced on February 6 by the Harvard authorities stated that permanent steel stands would close the open end of the concrete horseshoe. Investigation has revealed that the steel and concrete seats, which would be permanent, would cost $300,000, which Mr. Bingham considered too great an expenditure for seats at the end of the field. A reconsideration has brought the agreement to construct removable stands which will meet fully the requirements of the Boston Building Commission, which condemned the old wooden seats, and will not change the capacity of the Stadium to a great extent...
...education now being conducted along various lines at Harvard, Wisconsin, Swarthmore, and other institutions, which are to a considerable extent embodied in his own plan. The prime purpose of Utopia College is the avowed one of all modern universities; namely, to stimulate intelligent thinking. In pursuit of this fundamental end, however, Dean Hibbard proposes a radical innovation, such as is not approximated by any formally organized American institution, and to which the nearest approach is the experimental school at Wisconsin. All regular courses are to be abolished and the efforts of the students at Utopia College will be directed...