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Dates: during 1940-1949
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facilities at Princeton have alternated from good to very bad. The two-million volumes Firestone Library now gives that colleges facilities which are unique in architecture and functional value...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton's New Firestone Library Dominates Nassau Academic Plant | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

...carrel system is one of the library's most unusual end controversial features. Some 494 of them--500 were planned, but 6 got lost in the construction shuffie--are located through the acre and one-half of stack area on each of the three lower floors and the two above the main level...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton's New Firestone Library Dominates Nassau Academic Plant | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

Forty educators from some 50 colleges all over the nation are attending the two day session here. In meeting today, the group discussed administration of summer schools...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summer Session Men Hear Elliott | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

Although an evening of Shaw can hardly be unrewarding, the Brattle Theatre Company's treatment of two Shavian pieces is an uneven one, and decidedly not up to the potentialities of that group. The selections, however, were happy ones. The scene of Don Juan in Hell from "Man and Superman" gives us Shaw, the serious and at once entertaining critic of society, presenting his provocative cosmology. "The Millionaires" is a farcical treatment of this same cosmology. In both, Shaw's gifts for coining paradoxes and his penetration are at their best...

Author: By Edmond A. Levy, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

...Millionaires", the idea is similar, but this two-act play covers much less ground than "Man and Superman," which has something to say about almost everything. Both plays deal with the affirmative man, who is in this case, an Egyptian doctor. This time, the Hell is on earth, and in the pursuit of its pleasures are a wealthy restless millionaires, her puerile sportsman of a husband, and their respective lovers. In the end, the millionaires finds a purpose for the power of money which she and her father have been accumulating for its own sake, in the doctor whom...

Author: By Edmond A. Levy, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

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