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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arch. Sci. Department in the teaching of the visual arts assumes particular importance in a society whose increased awareness and concern for the role of the visual arts is especially notable against the background of nearly complete neglect which characterized its attitude towards these fields in the past...
This danger is partially offset at the GSD through the collaborative projects undertaken by the advanced students of the three departments. Times Square, Park Square in Boston, and the portion of Cambridge between Harvard and MIT have been project subjects in the past. Besides leading to a mutual appreciation of each other's role these joint efforts provide the students an opportunity to encounter the complexity entailed in a plan complete with its economic, political, technological, social and aesthetic aspects...
...importance assigned by the GSD to workshop type courses is evident from its desire that entering students should display some such in their background. Indeed there have been sporadic suggestions in the past that a similar course in visual design be required of all undergraduates, as it is at many other institutions. Unlikely as it is, such a suggestion reflects the concern of many that the normal academic education neglects this field, which is a major element in our contemporary society...
What will most grasp the reader's attention, however, is the no-holds-barred sex which enlivens the mid-summer campaign for the governorship of Mississippi. In this connection it is useful that the protagonist, although paunchy and past his prime, is possibly the biggest man with the girls south of Memphis. Also that the two fully developed female characters are nymphomaniacs allows for frequent relaxations from the business of capturing the statehouse. The only problem with all this is that it imposes the necessity of building up to greater and greater exploits and more improbable melodrama. With the first...
...addition, it should even up considerably the later contests in May with Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth, important matches which in the past have always been trouble spots. The fact that the Crimson meets both Yale and Dartmouth on its own course this year should also be of help in the Ivy competition...