Word: fogg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Movies at Harvard may not be better than ever, but there are certainly more of them. Five undergraduate groups are glutting the University with over sixty films, almost two per week throughout the college year. In addition, Cine, known last year as the Boston Film Society, has encamped in Fogg, increasing the celluloid profusion by approximately twelve films...
Exam period is far away, but for those who remember three hours of squint and strain in Fogg during exam periods past, the delay cannot be too long. The lighting, designed especially for courses using slides, features a brilliantly illuminated stage, and overhead spotlight fixtures, equipped with what seem to be sixty-watt bulbs. The paltry number of foot-candles falling from above usually get lost in the dirty greenish decor...
...simplest and most effective answer is to rid exam schedules of Fogg altogether. Seldom used as it is, the Museum serves only when exams for a large enough number of big courses overflow the University's other auditoriums. Now, however, Harvard's latest monument to concrete and glass offers two new halls, one holding two hundred examgoers, the other one hundred and fifty...
Examination schedules are complicated, requiring much human and electronic energy to plot. Yet the Registrar's office has personnel and IBM machines in abundance, as well as four months to banish Fogg. We can only hope that all these assets will be put to good...
Harvard's chill Fogg Museum has built up its $20 million collection on the theory that the best way to learn about art is to study masterpieces. Those who apply themselves most earnestly to the Fogg's masterpieces are inclined to be a highbrow lot, and their favorite painting is Lucas Van Leyden's cool, subtle Angel...