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...Overseers, under the chairmanship of Harrison Tweed '07, said that "it is a fact that neither the philosophy nor any of the recommendations in the (Brown) Report have been accepted by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences or the Corporation...
...work of art. Its theme-the defeat of the ingrown English middle class-has been needleworked by such skilled knitters and tatters as Ivy (Men and Wives) Compton-Burnett and Elizabeth (The House in Paris) Bowen. The Long View knits up the raveled sleeve of middle-class tweed. As in the work of her greater exemplars, Author Howard shows the old, secure, middle-class family house to be falling, and her characters speak in those elliptical, strained asides of snooty English people who would rather drop a friend than an aspirate...
Leonard Opdycke '17, Department Chairman, and John P. Coolidge '35, Director of the Fogg Museum, will represent the Fine Arts faculty before the Committee, headed by Harrison Tweed '07. Plans for the meeting call for discussion of possible modifications in the recommendations of the recent Visual Arts Report...
Swindled freshmen said the pair were very smooth speakers, and seemed "typical seniors." One was dressed in Ivy League clothing, a tweed jacket with gray flannel pants, while the other wore a gaberdine suit. They both had slight Boston accents...
...technical treatment of organic evolution. Beginning with a history of evolutionary thought, Professor Romer proceeds to the genetic background of the subject, the work of Darwin, and finally a detailed explanation of how a fish got to be an ape, and how an ape got to wear tweed jackets and flannel pants...