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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Movius, Jr. '30, Curator of Palaeolithic Archaeology at the Peabody Museum, will lead an expedition to the small farming village of Les Eyzies in southwestern France this summer. He plans to study "the relationship between the Upper Paleolithic man and his slowly changing environment from 20 to 35 thousand years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Movius to Study Palaeolithic Life, Prehistoric Man | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

...Vleck, who visited scientific laboratories, was impressed by "the enormous number of able and hard-working people." Three thousand are enrolled in the five year physics course at the University of Moscow. Both Leontief and Lord feel that the Russian educators know more about us than we do about them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Exchange Plans Develop With Leningrad Faculty | 2/24/1959 | See Source »

Calling for a "coeducational, residential college, initially of about a thousand students" located near the four sponsoring insttutions, The New College Plan opens a 56 page attack on academic rigidity...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: Attack on Academic Rigidity Calls for 'Major Departure' | 2/20/1959 | See Source »

...calculate that the New College plan, by giving up the attempt at a complete course offering (impossible for a college in any case), will make it possible for a faculty of 50 to give a first-rate education to a thousand undergraduates. This ratio of one to twenty will go with efficient size of classes: relatively large groups in lectures and small groups in seminars...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: Attack on Academic Rigidity Calls for 'Major Departure' | 2/20/1959 | See Source »

...James admired Gertrude, Gertrude worshipped him. "Is life worth living?" she asked. "Yes, a thousand times yes when the world still holds such spirits as Professor James." Probably, in all her life, he was the man she came closest to being in love with. "He is a man take him for what...

Author: By Alice P. Albright, | Title: Gertrude Stein at Radcliffe: Most Brilliant Women Student | 2/18/1959 | See Source »

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