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...maxim, avoid mass, has gained a select following in the ranks of both British and American novelists in the last few years. The tendency is to state, not to show; and the reader's duty is to observe, not to emphasize. Long, Trollope or Tolstoy-type works, with their series of minute contradictions and counter-contradictions within each paragraph over several hundred pages, have been abandoned in preference to far shorter works, such as The Old Man and The Sea. "Mass" or "body" in a novel is now not requisite; therefore both character development and the illusion of realism...
...tightened Fine Arts Department regulations this term have required all junior concentrators to select a restricted period of art history for intensified study. All future concentrators will also have to choose one of six periods for specialization in their last three terms...
...covering the new society, some papers have actually gone out and made society news. For example. Chicago Daily News Society Editor Athlyn Deshais last year ran a contest to select the "New Queen of Chicago Society" (TIME, Jan. 18, 1954); it proved to be one of the paper's most popular special features. With readers finding their own names and those of their friends on the society pages, newspapers have found that expanded society coverage is paying off in increased circulation. With the change, many a society reporter and socialite has belatedly come to recognize the truth of Alva...
...French students who have been trained specially for it and who remain in it for several years, rather than at "Harvard language concentrators" spending a winter in Paris. Intimate knowledge of this system and of particular curricula, not to be acquired in a few weeks, is necessary to select courses which, while conforming to the time limits, would be appropriate for the student and acceptable to his college...
...improving the tournament, the Crimson coach advocated a play-off between teams from northern New York State, like R.P.I., Clarkson, and St. Lawrence, and the winner of the Ivy League or the New England Hockey League. Such a play-off would eliminate the need for an N.C.A.A. board to select "arbitrarily" the best Eastern team for national competition