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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Two pieces of sculpture by Constantin Brancusi, one of which is a famous "Flight of the Bird," should be among the most interesting features of the exhibit. In the program note for the show there is the following comment on this eminent sculptor: "An artist of enormous technical knowledge he has experimented, refined, synthesized, and perfected until his forms are the inevitable essentials of his model, expressed in media whose possibilities he has so completely explored." "Standing Nude" by Aristide Maillol is another piece of sculpture that will appear in the exhibition...
...been in several instances distorted into an assumption of definite educational supremacy. The justification of this claim would hardly rest upon the results of such a test of strength. For no sense of educational value could be more false than that which would judge the relative merits of two colleges or their corresponding departments upon the comparative standards attained by ten representatives in a single field, however general. Such judgement might further lead to an unbalanced emphasis upon the importance of examinations as criteria of educational achievement...
...inability of two parties to compete on unequal preparation is manifest, Princeton with a divisional system complete in two years. Yale with a system quite as dissimilar, Cambridge under a totally different conception of the curriculum, can scarcely compete with Harvard under a divisional plan in absolute accord with the terms of the competition. Harvard has made its own rules. This would be an obvious stumbling block in any field of competition. And particularly in the field of scholarship, one finds no definite limits, no rules of the game, whereby one and all may compete on the same grounds...
...University players are undaunted by the have recently wrought in their ranks. Captain John Tudor '29, playing in his last intercollegiate game, and F. R. G. Giddens '30, Canadian ace, have both proven that they can rise to great heights under adverse conditions. Two of the highest scorers on the Harvard squad, they will be counted on once again to lead a fierce attack against their favored rivals...
...outs for the east will be held on next Tuesday and Wednesday, and are open to all members of the University. Two first-class comedians are needed, as well as any men who can sing or dance. Inasmuch as no roles have yet been definitely filled, and since there is a large number of parts, an excellent opportunity is offered to those interested. Candidates are requested to sign in the blue book which will be at Leavitt and Peiree's tomorrow...