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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Program for Harvard College, a conception of the Corporation, the Administration, and a limited number of the Alumni, is the most obvious of these commitments. It provides $15 million for three new houses and another million for an improved and enlarged commuter center. Master Leighton talks of raising the percentage of commuters in the student body, and Seymour Harris discusses eliminating small classes in order to pack more students into existing facilities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Discussion Please | 5/14/1959 | See Source »

...original." exclaimed Picasso triumphantly. In fact, Picasso had acquired the site his predecessor and mentor made famous with a number of late and exemplary canvases. The event itself is striking, the stuff of which Maupassant stories are made. The virtuoso pupil becomes lord of the very scene where his master of old perished neglected and alone. The act embodies a particularly exalted form of homage; it also represents an exotic sort of justice, ironic and bitter...

Author: By Paul W. Schwartz, | Title: Two Masters | 5/13/1959 | See Source »

...Their aesthetic credos coincide and their sucessive development is a matter of logical procession. Yet, it is seldom that one sees the two exhibited side by side. Collectors whose tastes embrace Cezanne somehow are wont to find Picasso extreme and lately it has become fashionable to see the older master as a conservative, so a chance to see the two in close proximity is welcome and valuable...

Author: By Paul W. Schwartz, | Title: Two Masters | 5/13/1959 | See Source »

John C. Morris, Gordon McKay Professor of Sanitary Chemistry, will become Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Dudley House on July 1, Delmar Leighton, Master of Dudley, announced yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Morris to Be Dudley House Senior Tutor | 5/12/1959 | See Source »

...ludicrously human crew of Olympian divinities and, later, by a more sophisticated secular humanism. This man worship, which has thrilled so many historians of Greece, chills Toynbee (an Anglican with a yen for syncretism). To him, it is a form of idolatry that appeals to man when he has mastered nature but has not yet realized that he cannot master himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Ghost of Greece | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

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