Word: groupe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the total effect of the European war on Harvard registration cannot be learned until the final returns are tabulated sometime next week, the fate of one group of students, the holders of fellowships abroad, is already known...
...thousand Freshmen, selected from the largest group of applicants ever to seek admission to Harvard College, will register today in Memorial Hall...
Most colleges stop worrying about a student when he flunks out. But at that point University of Minnesota's General College begins. Flunks worry General College because they are so numerous: half of all U. S. undergraduates flunk out of college. General College believes that, if this large group cannot become competent doctors, lawyers or engineers, at least they must be made competent citizens. After seven years the college is still seeking a formula for turning out good citizens,* but last week it reported progress: it had determined by a prodigious piece of research what a college graduate...
Illinois's new resident artist boasts: "I never had any training in the fine arts or painting, thank goodness!" A member of the Sanity in Art Group, which considers "modernist" a synonym for "lousy," Artist Nichols is belligerent in refusing to "pick out the ugly things-strikes, droughts, ugly alleys and paint them." Subjects he prefers are the prairie landscapes of his youth, usually snowed under. These famed smooth snow effects Artist Nichols gets by laying on his oils in a thin film with watercolor brushes...
...statistics by quantitative symbols (a convenient and striking dodge that for rows of dead numbers substitutes conventionalized pictures of men, machines, factories, whatever, each picture-unit representing any number the statistician states). He now heads the International Foundation for Visual Education. Out of his feeling, and that of his group in Vienna, that science should be a unified endeavor with a unified language, there grew a series of unification congresses and an International Encyclopedia of Unified Science (TiME, Aug. 1, 1938). The first two volumes were to comprise 20 monographs. Seven of these have now been published by the University...