Word: graying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...freedom from convention, as George Apley did, but for conventions-standards of belief and behavior-that will allow him to function as a human being in a world where beliefs are shared.1' He is troubled by the materialist itch of American life, whether he is Charley Gray, the nice poor boy who wants to be a nice rich man but still plays by the rules, or Willis Wayde, who has torn up the rules and claws his way to uneasy success-the only Marquand hero the author seems to have loathed...
...spite of this cloudy past, the Harvard Summer School, the oldest in the nation, with 1960 making the 85th consecrative session. Professor Asa Gray started vacation sessions in 1872. For a six-week period, he gave special instruction in Botany, a successful experiment repeated following year by Professor Louis Agassiz. Other members of the Lawrence Scientific School--now part the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences--later offered courses in Chemistry and Geology for their private benefit. Thus the Summer School was born, quietly, unnoticed by his historians or by the outside world...
...sized correctly in 1888, when it wrote. "The summer courses are certain the increase in number, and to grow in interest every year." History does show the success of the nation's older Summer School--even if no one can recall the beginnings. Since its humble origins in Asa Gray's lectures, vacation education has been widely copied and justly admired
...representational art. There is also no denying that the general public prefers representational art (it was no accident that, in the balloting for the Popular Prize, 40 percent of the votes went for one representational work, Robert Bliss' "Balanced Figure," a skillful if too slick view in shades of gray of a kneeling man on a tight-rope as seen from above...
Summer sessions at Harvard began in 1871, when Professor Asa Gray instructed students in botany. This year marks the 35th continuous year, since a full-fiedged teaching program did not start until...