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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Committee disregarded the most important suggestion made by a special Student Council group. A great many people hide books and keep them out of circulation simply because they do not wish to study in Lamont. The buzzing lights, the oft-inadequate ventilation, and the noise and crowding of Reading Period make the building undesirable for concentrated work...
...deliberate "C-men," for whom President Lowell had always felt particular antipathy, were at last becoming a minority group. Partly by his own example of industry, Lowell had instilled in faculty and students alike a distaste for complacency and intellectual lethargy. The tutor system too had a new premium on individual effort, so that the men who had planned on doing just enough to get by were finding it rather heavy going...
Lowell's last innovation was the Society of Fellows, finally established just before he resigned in 1932-33. Ostensibly the Society was different from his earlier projects because it involved only a small and academically exclusive group instead of all the undergraduates or all the faculties. But fundamentally, it was designed for the same purpose as the other academic reforms--to recreate intellectual excitement in the College...
...various stages of progression toward overt cancer, the graphs showed a similar increase with heavier smoking. Cancer-type cells lying dormant but presumably capable of erupting into fatal disease were not found in any nonsmokers or occasional smokers. But they occurred in .3% of slides in the group smoking less than half a pack daily; .8% in the half-pack-to-a-pack group; 4.3% in the one-to-two-packs group; and 11.4% of slides from men smoking more than two packs...
Since World War II, British sculptors have gained more fame as a group than all of their forerunners put together. Their grand old man is Henry Moore (TIME, Sept. 21), but other stars of the movement are still in their 20s and 30s. Among the youngest and newest to fame are two modelers of heavily textured, postsurrealist, gloomily playful figures: Eduardo Paolozzi, 35, and Elisabeth Frink...