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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Also stressed is the attitude of the Master towards all aspects of the House. "The greatest influence on the House personality is the Master. This is unfortunate if the Masters are poor, wonderful when they are good...

Author: By Mark H. Alcott, | Title: Council Reports Houses Cut Student-Faculty Tie | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

...telephone is a Jekyll and Hyde invention, a curse and plague as often as it is a convenience. We list our present lack of a telephone as our greatest luxury. We no longer must drop whatever we are doing, day or night, and run to answer that raucous bell. I now have leisure to pursue a hobby, enjoy good music, read a book or converse with my wife. We are not dragged off against our will to meetings. We no longer must put up with the leechlike telephone salesmen and solicitors. Meanwhile, our health is better as we have eliminated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 16, 1959 | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

Thanks for printing the article [Feb. 23] on the man who is probably America's greatest living artist-Thomas Hart Benton. Let others relegate him to the cellars; time will vindicate him. Eventually the world will gag on the "hysterical subjectivism" of the abstract expressionist paintslingers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 16, 1959 | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

...Communist North Viet Nam. Wisp-bearded Ho kissed all the pretty girls in sight, thus scandalizing pious Moslems, who complained that his bussing of young women was "an overt violation of Moslem law." Sukarno, who always likes to say what visitors like to hear, called Ho "one of the greatest men in Asia." General Abdul Haris Nasution and his army kept order and their own counsel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: The Duel | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

...advancement in Chemistry, Physics, and Mathematics; some get it in Mathematics, American History, and French. Thus, a boy with enough interest in widely separated areas to take stiff, advanced classes in all of them must almost immediately make up his mind to forsake two of them. One of the greatest benefits of Freshman year is that it can give an opportunity to consider the problem of devoting one's self to a single area...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Advanced Placement Program Nears Maturity | 3/13/1959 | See Source »

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