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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unfortunate that Harvard is unable to keep up any such creative outposts for very long. This matter is hardly ever one of impracticability, for time and money have been found in the past for many projects. It is, I feel, a problem of the distrust of anything new and unfamiliar to University life. Baker went to Yale: Richard Filipowski has been approached by another university which realizes the necessity for the course. If we deplore the lack of a theatre now, how long will it take us to realize that we need Design 1 back again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DESIGN FOR TODAY | 2/28/1952 | See Source »

...thing, "many readers today are unfamiliar with that part of history which consists of the names and legends of classical mythology, so largely employed in the poems of Milton, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson and Matthew Arnold. This ignorance does not at all impede the appreciation of music or of painting. But a reader who has no conception of ancient Hellas and its mythology and no loving imagination of pastoral life must lose some at least of the enchantment of Keats's Ode to Mala...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Ignorant Reader | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

...continued significance of the intramural program of athletics should be stressed. Visitors unfamiliar with the extent of the program or the interests it arouses are often struck by the keen competition between the Houses for the various athletic trophies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Today: Excerpts From the President's Report | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

...Hudner who was considered far and away the best attackman in New England last year. Hudner played in last spring's North-South game, the unofficial try-out for All-America recognition, but because of a blunder on the part of officials he was forced to play at the unfamiliar position of midfield...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lacrosse Players Fail To Make All-American | 12/18/1951 | See Source »

According to Pickett, the B.U. squad is weaker than the team defeated last year by the Crimson. But, nevertheless, a few of his men will be working in unfamiliar weight classes...

Author: By Ronald P. Kriss, | Title: Wrestlers Meet BU Here Tonight; Lineup Juggled | 12/12/1951 | See Source »

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