Word: fagg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last November Bernard Fagg, director of antiquities in Nigeria, paused on a cross-country journey to make a courtesy call on the Oni of Ife. The Oni, the Hon. Sir Adesoji Aderemi, King and spiritual leader of 4,500,000 Yoruba tribesmen, was delighted by the visit. An hour earlier, workmen, clearing a site for a new building, had uncovered a few delicately wrought bronze relics, and the Oni was eager to show them off. After one look at the find-two bronze statues, two egg-shaped staff finials, two solid brass staffs, and a decorated drinking vessel-Fagg rushed...
...over 1950. But while total private voluntary gifts exceeded $500 million, said the council's President Wilson Compton, the nation's campuses would still need twice that amount "if they are to meet rock-bottom requirements of maintenance and growth." ¶Resignation of the week: Fred D. Fagg Jr., 60, as president of the University of Southern California. In his ten years at U.S.C., Fagg saw his enrollment nearly triple to 17,500, his campus grow by ten major new buildings, and the university give out almost as many diplomas (nearly...
...exhibition comprises the 166-piece collection of a wealthy Philadelphia engineer named Webster Plass (who died last year) and his widow Margaret. Africanist William Fagg supplied a foreword to the exhibition catalogue that could also be taken as a friendly warning to visitors. To see the show clearly, said Fagg, it is necessary to forget all about naturalism, which sprang from Greek art and survived in the photographic age. "African art is an art not of analysis but of synthesis: the artist does not begin from the natural form of, say, the human body ... He begins from a germinal concept...
...miles of track, Gurley had watched his railroad prosper, but with the uneasy suspicion that it was failing in a primary duty: to help its personnel understand the free-enterprise economy in which they operate. Last spring Gurley suggested that U.S.C.'s President Fred D. Fagg Jr. organize a new course just for the Santa...
...chosen from a number of students recommended by the various departments, are Donald R. Fagg, teaching fellow in Social Relations, of Winthrop House and Chappaqua, New York; Alan Manne '44 of Massachusetts Hall and New York City; Donald B. Meyer, teaching fellow in History, of Cambridge; and Winton U. Solberg of Conant Hall and Aberdeen, South Dakota...