Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Loeb gift comes at a time when interest in drama has reached a new high in the College. The past year has seen a total of 45 student productions on the stages of Sanders Theatre, Agassiz, and various House dining halls. The works ran the theatrical gamut from tragedy to comedy, and from such standard theatre fare as Shaw and Shakespeare to the rarely performed works of Strindberg and Genet...
...introduction to the report notes: "It is hardly necessary to document the evidence for the lack of real interest in the intellectual life of the University on the part of all too many students; the swarm that descends on "gut" courses, the hundreds whose memorization of the student outline is the only discipline their minds get in a course, and the multitude who simply take notes and disgorge the lectures, duly organized, on hour tests and examinations testify to the apathy of the average Yale student towards his studies. The theme is repeated by faculty and students alike; many have...
...Extracurricular activities have hindered academic interest due to the concept of the successful Yale man. This is a concept where the good student is sub-ordinated to a perverted notion of the 'well-rounded' person. If there is to be a revival of academic interest at Yale, then there will have to be a de-emphasis in the whole sphere of extracurricular activities. The recent creation of the Ivy League is a significant step in preventing undue emphasis on athletics...
...vehicle for undergraduate-prose-and-poetry. The difference in approach is illustrated most clearly in the Audience reviews and articles. Guy Davenport in "The Nymph in the Spark Plug" is concerned not merely with the "literary standards" of a literary mode but with its movement in intellectual history. The interest is in observation rather than in literary pomp. Audience's casual observations, however, can carry it astray. Donald Van Eman sets up a paradigm only so as to have an excuse for commenting on several Westerns; he wanders all over the lot and then attempts to pull a point...
...ASSETS SALE will dispose of Hugo Stinnes' German mining and shipping empire, whose $67 million assets make it second richest wartime-seized enemy property still held by Government (first: General Aniline & Film). In deal expected to bring around $20 million, Justice Department is taking bids on its 53% interest in Stinns, for first time will allow aliens to bid for seized property...