Word: surveys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There must be many an intellectual, avid newspaper reader-even editor -who finds himself reading regularly the survey offered him by magazines, although the dateline may be three to seven days behind his own morning paper-not so much for the additional informative items, or the 'cute' pattern in which the facts are laid, but for the perspective in the properly arranged facts . . . It is the messenger in the Greek tragedy who always gives a better commentary of the battle than the hero or his arms-bearer who shout bits of information around during the encounter. The newspaper...
...Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum last week, 98 paintings from 17th century Holland went on display. The brilliant survey was borrowed from museums and private collections across Europe and the U.S., will be shown next year at Toledo and Toronto. As the color reproductions on the following pages demonstrate, the exhibition's minor pieces and masterpieces alike were made by men who had the skill and will to paint precisely what they saw. The Dutch of that day evidently saw things in sharp focus, with a calm objectivity foreign to subjective 20th century eyes...
...committee does plan a careful survey of the freshman and sophomore program. Under the distribution program adopted in 1947, freshmen must take courses in the four fields of social sciences, natural sciences, art and literature, and history, philosophy, and religion. At sophomores the latter fields are condensed under the humanities. This broad training closely resembles Harvard's General education program without...
Fogg Museum is showing a full survey of modern art in drawings and prints from the early 19th century to the present...
During its investigation the committee hopes to determine the best use of Fogg Museum by departments other than Fine Arts. It will survey the University's art museums, the Busch-Reisinger Museum of German Culture, the Graduate School of Design, and the art resources of Widener, Houghton, and Lamont libraries...