Word: student
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four songs of Mr. Cutler, who is now a graduate student of composition at Brandeis, were finished two years ago and sound a bit adolescent, a bit melodramatic. They center around the ambitious subject of death and, from their excessive use of tremolos in the strings punctuated by over-orchestrated fortissimo chords, one gathers that Mr. Cutler's concept of death is merely a scary mood, not unlike the effect of the most terrifying sections of a horror movie. The pseudo-meaningful verses by that overrated American poet, Kenneth Patchen, do not help the listener in his attempt to grasp...
...majority of Radcliffe students replying to a recent Student Government Association poll on the use of the library overwhelmingly rejected a suggestion to extend the closing hour from 10 to 11 p.m. The questionnaire quoted library officials as stating that reserve books would have to circulate for overnight use at 9 p.m. instead of at 4:30 p.m., if the later closing time were approved...
Terence Hawkes, of University College in Cardiff, England, leveled the charge in a letter to the Guardian's editors. "I think it is still true to say that Harvard and many other 'Ivy League' colleges select their students on the fundamentally undemocratic and manifestly illegal basis of 'quota.'" Hawkes wrote. "Only a certain number of Jewish and Negro student are admitted each year, regardless of academic prowess...
...student at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at Oxford University, Kilson stated, "I happen to know personally one of the Harvard administrators responsible for admission (as a Negro student I was quite interested in this question), and I can assure you that for Harvard's part there is not one iota of discrimination in admitting Negro students...
...Jewish students," wrote Kilson, "I believe that they constitute about 25 per cent or so of the Harvard student population, and I do not recall, during my stay at Harvard, any serious criticism of the University for having a discriminatory policy towards Jewish students...