Word: formful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since the war, and particularly in the last ten years, applications to the College have risen sharply. The growing ratio of opplications to admissions made it necessary to form a working "policy of selectivity"--a set of criteria, however vague. And the possibilities of a hand-picked class encouraged extensive speculation, both within the Admissions staff and among other administrators, about the ideal Harvard class...
This year D'Costa hopes to add 35 new members to the ten returning students, who now form the Club's core. With a larger membership, fixed expenses can be spread more thinly, and experience has shown that around 45 members will keep both planes fully scheduled on good flying days...
...expected, Bob Lowe of the Bruins led the field. Lowe won by more than 250 yards, and his time for the five-mile course, 25:34, was one of the best ever recorded at Franklin Park. In front from start to finish, the Brown ace showed the form that may carry him to the Heptagonal crown later in the fall...
...seminaries, argued Dean Miller, must take some of the blame. Theological education has become "a vulgarized form of a trade school," failing to develop the young clergyman's intellect or make him sensitive to the heights and depths of human experience. Today's minister, warned Miller, "must be sure his mind is sharpened to its utmost, lest he blunder about the world with a rough and stupid carelessness, hoping that he might hit upon the will of God merely because of his good intentions...
...earliest extant painting, consists of twelve separate wooden "platters" framed as a unit. (One is reproduced life-size opposite, nine of the rest overleaf.) Pieter Brueghel the Younger framed the platters, but only the elder Brueghel could have done the actual painting. Only his hand was firm enough to form such airy medallions of understanding...