Word: nov
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That "struggling boys' camp" run by Mrs. Lowney Handy [Nov. 12] should be burned to the ground and all the books by both Gerald Tesch and James Jones thrown in for good measure...
Regarding Northwestern University's chapter of Psi Upsilon and the depledged freshman, Sherman Wu [Nov. 12]: As an American and an N.U. graduate, I am outraged at the arrogance of Psi U and at the university for allowing such a disgrace to occur...
Noted with interest the depledging of a Chinese student at Northwestern University [Nov. 12]. Thought you would be interested in the pledging of a Chinese-American student at Mississippi State College for Women. Now what does prejudice have to do with geography...
Architect Eero Saarinen's description of the castle at Brandeis University as "Mexican Ivanhoe" [Nov. 19] reminds me of Sinclair Lewis' equally unkind characterization of modernist structures as "glass-fronted hen-houses." The castle (see cut) was designed by my father, Dr. John Hall Smith, founder of Middlesex University, to house the classrooms and laboratories of its School of Medicine. More befitting the medieval grandeur of our castle are the lines of Wordsworth...
...Perennial Prizewinner Nicholson (TIME, Nov. 19), who won the Carnegie International top award in 1952, was a prizewinner in the 1954 Venice Biennale, and earlier this year won the Grand Prize at the Lugano IV International, the cash was probably as welcome as the credit. Though "delighted by the award," Winner Nicholson was not willing to go far toward helping viewers puzzle out the meaning of his serene grey, white and dull-brown forms. He would say only that Val d'Orcia is in Tuscany, adding abstractly: "Of course I should say that the color and shape, for color...