Word: numbered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...College, and even this figure ignores double-membership and the flock of joiners whose last "activity" may be plunking down $1.50 for the privilege of belonging. In the Liberal Union, for example, only 15 of 50 members "regularly attend business meetings," and such is the general pattern. Furthermore, a number of clubs appear "rather relaxed," as one president wryly said, and even "active" members do little...
...meals in specially crowded conditions surrounded by unpainted stages and ugly sets. The situation in Lowell House is, I believe, typical. Normally the House dining room can seat 235 people at a time. There ae 448 paying boarders in Lowell so that when one adds to this number the commuters, inter-house students and tutors who also eat in the House the dining room is quite crowded. The dining hall is now blessed with a large wooden stage, numerous sets, stage lights, and wires. These objects, laid down in preparation for the Lowell House opera-necessitate a reduction of from...
...first move in this direction was to increase the cost from ten dollars flat fee for an unlimited number of tests to five dollars registration fee and eight dollars for each test. The new rate takes effect this year, but the tests already cost between thirty and fifty dollars apiece to administer and grade...
...Williams has complaints other than those arising from the academic personality. He has little use for the grading system, and especially for the university's tendency to equate academic standards with the number of low grades given--"the domineering element in the student's relation to his education is--the grade." He expresses his skepticism of: admissions examinations, small classes, general education, restricted college enrollments, long presidential tenures, professor-administrators, and the "publish or perish" theory. On the credit side, he thinks that the high schools are better than they were thirty years ago. He debunks the professors who deplore...
...number of sculptures which happen to accompany the Picasso at the Museum of Fine Arts make an interesting comparison. There is a Lehmbruck which is rather more elegant, more refined. There is a Brancusi fish which is more restrained. But there is also a Calder stabile which pursues much the same goals as the Picasso--a forceful statement of dramatic black shapes--and next to it the Picasso looks far more complete, more resolved, more dignified...