Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Capp's most recent use of Harvard in his strip pertained to the hallowed Dogpatch tradition of Sadie Hawkins Day. It seems that thirteen new bachelors were needed to participate in the annual race, and that someone in Dogpatch who could read saw in a newspaper that Harvard was awarding 2000 bachelors' degrees. Moonbeam McSwine, one of the more picturesque local characters, was dispatched to Cambridge to recruit the necessary bachelors. She met with surprisingly little resistance...
...large number of Rorty's books can be taken out, but this one is at the Medical School Library. So is Harvey Wiley's "History of a Crime." All his many other books can be taken out. Many books of Upton Sinclair are listed, only one can not be read, "The Art of Health...
...Medical School are in the Medical School Library. Books for students studying mining and geology are in the Mining Library. However, diet and nutrition is everybody's problem, not for medical students alone, and books on food should be available to all. If students would like to read any of them, I would be glad to arrange to have the following books given to the Widener Library for use by all college students and other card holders...
...started studying with his mother when he was three. Long before he could read words, he learned to read notes. At four, he appeared in his first public recital at Shreveport's Dodd College, playing Bach's Prelude in C Major. When he was six, the family moved to Kilgore, Texas (pop. 10,500). His father, who had hoped Van might be a medical missionary, decided he was headed for a musical career after all, had a studio built for him on the back of the garage, equipped it with a piano. The boy practiced for an hour...
...mural, in ultramarine blue, cadmium red, titanium white and mars black, could be read as a simplification of the industrial process, with diced slices at the top working down through a pinball-machine principle to end in packaged products at the bottom. In fact, says Davis, the work is pure composition. The title Composition Concreète refers to "concrete music"-sounds recorded on tape, which is cut and spliced in patterns to make a composition. This emphasis is not surprising from Stuart Davis, who says that jazz is his greatest inspiration...