Word: student
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Another Student Council committee has produced another report demonstrating complete inability to deal with the central issues of its chosen problem. The Parietal Hours committee has written a study which may overwhelm students and impress council members, but which has no hope of convincing the Faculty...
Second, that the program be based in the several Houses and thus serve as "part of the communications network between the student and his House...
Never before has such a numerous of enthusiastic audience turned out for the weekly showing. Student response to the Crimson victory was so great that at times the backs of wildly-applauding undergraduates completely blocked the screen...
Modigliani's Portrait of a Student displays the loosest sort of lyricism into which the Modigliani manner can degenerate. Picasso's two little cubist paintings have little more than the master's signature to recommend them. Their color has no vitality or subtlety and the jumped compositions, especially that of the cramped Bottle and Glass, exemplifies Picasso's carelessness at its most annoying. Carelessness, indeed, sloppiness blemishes a Miro pastel, titled, for no readily apparent reason, Woman Doing Her Hair Before a Mirror. A mysterious and evocative oil painting of his, Composition, done in 1925, has a flow and easiness...
...probable factor in creating this feeling is their lack of familiarity with the graduate departments of other universities. This overblown attraction toward GSAS can result in last-ditch "Where shall I apply?" queries, directed very often to people who know little more about American graduate schools than the student. Or it can end in abandonment of graduate study plans...