Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...March 3 issue upon my recent lecture analyzing the various ways in which eye diseases might affect an artist's use of form and color. As your readers have pointed out, the primary objection to any such mechanistic explanation is that, however distorted the individual's perception, subject and rendering ought to tally. Yet this self-correcting effect does not always seem to operate. Tests have shown that a circle, viewed through an astigmatic lens, will be seen and reproduced as an ellipse; further evidence can be found in the practice and comments of various artists known...
PERHAPS the touchiest and most taboo-ridden major problem facing big-city governments in the U.S. is the high crime rate among Negroes. Probing into the subject, TIME correspondents found city politicians evasive, police officials wary, Negro leaders defensive. But as the facts piled up, it was plain that the curtain of evasion conceals a social illness of disturbing scope. For a report on the problem and its causes, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Negro Crime Rate: A Failure in Integration...
Members of the history department have been discussing at great length the problem of who shall be required to take history tutorial in the future. Unfortunately, they have not given the same careful consideration to the problem of subject matter covered by the two year tutorial program...
...Memorial Church. "As a Protestant churchman and a member of the Faculty of Divinity I feel that I must identify myself with those who oppose the President's policy on the use of the Memorial edifice," he said. A letter, written by Williams to President Pusey on this subject will be printed in tomorrow's CRIMSON...
...science using past developments to lead up to the central problem of concern. In physics, for example, a course in particle theory could be used as a specific standpoint from which to develop an understanding of the modern scientific method which has a far more general application than the subject immediately at hand. Similar courses in biology, chemistry and physiology can easily be envisioned, and they would serve a purpose beyond their theoretical value. They would enable the Committee on General Education to obtain the services of some of the great scientific experts on the Faculty who are not sufficiently...