Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Specifically, the departmental report attacked the proposals of a study committee headed by John Nicholas Brown '22 to 1) remove studio work to a special "Design Center," 2) locate the planned Harvard Theatre on Quincy St., and 3) effectively reduce the staff of the University's museums. The rebuttal, published yesterday, was originally presented on Monday by Leonard Opdycke '17, department chairman, to the annual Cambridge meeting of the Overseers' Committee to Visit the Department...
Opdycke attacked the idea of setting up a special studio center for students of fine and applied arts as a "burr" on the University's museum facilities. Such a center would tend toward a professional art school, with little use to Fine Arts students seeking an understanding of the elements of painting, he said...
...Smithsonian is organizing the optical plotting of the satellite's course, both by individuals with telescopes and binoculars and by special electronically operated cameras at set locations. This work will establish the sphere's orbit, thus setting the stage for obtaining and evaluating a wealth of scientific data from...
...headquarters to Cambridge.Special MOONWATCH telescope provides a 12 1/2 degree field with impressive image brightness, and magnifies 55 times. The parts cost less than $20 and can be put together by a skilled amateur. The optical parts are war-surplus material and can be obtained from supply houses. Special teams equipped with these monoculars will watch for the satellite from locations scattered across the country, and report bach to Smithsonian headquarters in Cambridge when they spy it. Computing machines will use these findings to plot the sphere's orbit around the earth...
Clarence B. Randall '12, a special assistant to President Eisenhower, said last night that industry is at present neglecting in prospective employees, "the qualities which at middle life will produce the wisdom and judgement required for broad leadership...