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Seymour was inaugurated as Yale's fifteenth president in 1937. Born in New Haven 64 years ago, the son of a Yale professor, he received his bachelor's degree from Cambridge University in England and another from Yale...
Like an oft-repeated tale, it was the same story all over again at the Indoor Athletic Building last night as Harvard dropped its fifteenth straight basketball game, this time to the University of Pennsylvania, by a score...
...Passionate English. The Book of Costume also clearly documents how greatly the distinctive characteristics of nations change with the centuries. Fifteenth Century Italians were clean, reserved, austere: they were shocked by the filth of the Germans. Erasmus was bowled over by the vulgar English tendency to display passion and emotion in public. On the other hand, while skirts rise and fall and puffed knee breeches slowly work their way into peg-top trousers, many surprising similarities exist between far-separated cultures. The woman in the Greek wedding procession, bowling along in her chariot, might almost be on the way back...
...professor is one of America's foremost art connoisseurs and the drawings are the kind of works most admired by him. Forty different museums, galleries, and private collections loaned the exhibits to the Museum. They are examples only of European masters from the fourteenth to the fifteenth centuries, including "old favorites" and rare, but lesser known works. Names like Michelangelo, da Vinci, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, and Van Dyck adorn the canvasses...
...halberds guarded a torch-lit stage in Sanders Theater Sunday night, the setting would have been complete for the fine concert of fifteenth and sixteenth century choral music. Second in a series of three chamber music concerts for the benefit of the Radcliffe Seventieth Anniversary Fund, Sunday's program followed its predecessor in featuring rarely heard "old" music. Once your ear was tuned to the modal harmonies and the hollow sound of open fifths, you could close your eyes and hear Buxtehude, DesPres, Lassus, and Dufay, dreaming of gold brocade and tapestries...