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...been rounding up the works of Giovanni Bellini, long-acknowledged master of 15th Century Venetian art, who once had bishops and nobles competing for his magnificent altarpieces and light-filled portraits, and whose works are now prized by the world's great museums. With 142 of his 180 extant paintings and drawings, collected from all over Europe and the U.S., this is the largest Bellini show ever held. The great polyptych of the church of SS. Giovanni e Paolo in Venice was painstakingly restored for the occasion...
Visitors are not the Clinic's only problem. It also has to deal with all the crackpot mail that comes into the University. A couple of years ago an excited gentleman wrote in to report the discovery of 'the greatest psychological phenomena extant." He had discovered, he said, that he was being pursued by a group of tormentors with the "astounding, unheard of, utterly unbelievable occult powers" of projecting their voices like radio transmitters. It was quite a discovery, but the Clinic reaped the reward. That gentleman's case history is now required reading in a large psychology course...
From what little spies along the Charles have been able to see, MIT seems to have a more than adequate boat. No information appears to be extant about Princeton but it is reasonable to assume that the Orange has gotten in more miles on the water because it works in a warmer climate...
Schroeter noted that H442 could harm whole universities and their students for the political opinion of one person on the faculty. He pointed out that the Attorney-General has not had to prosecute a single person under loyalty laws currently extant...
Boas and Clayton pointed out that school buildings and teaching staffs in many states, especially in the south, are seriously inadequate. They backed arguments with statistics that described educational deficiences and illiteracy extant in the United States...