Word: masterful
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Lowell House will use part of its Ford Foundation grant to underwrite the publication of six essays by Lowell seniors in the spring, Master Elliott Perkins '23 announced yesterday...
Through the Alps. For all of Bruegel's lusty tastes and robust nature, the evidence is that he was not peasant-born, but a townsman, perhaps from Brogel near the home town of his great predecessor Hieronymus Bosch. Made a free master of St. Luke's painters' guild in Antwerp in 1551, he set out on a painting journey to France and Italy. But, unlike most of his contemporaries, Bruegel did not return home with his head crammed with Venetian painting and classical models. What had impressed him most was the magnificent sweep of Naples' harbor...
...always sought, Verlaine developed a passion for hospitals. Propped up on pillows, he "wrote his way through reams of hospital paper, pouring out poems, prose [and] presided in state over all the affairs of the ward." Young poets and admirers came daily to his bedside, listened rapturously while the Master, his hospital nightcap jauntily askew, recited his poems aloud. Then they tiptoed out, after "carefully depositing under the inverted chamber pot a bottle of brandy, or a flask of absinthe, some cigars or tobacco...
Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House, said yesterday he feared the Eighth House might not be used to relieve existing overcrowding. Instead, Perkins said, the new space may be allocated to freshmen now forced to commute and to those upperclassmen currently in Claverly and Wigglesworth...
Mavrinac pointed out that this "grass roots" aspect will give individuals and groups more opportunities to use the grant effectively. The students and societies will be required to forward their ideas to the Master and Senior Tutor for their approval...