Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Caprichos, was still in the clutches of an aggressive Church and absolute monarchy. The tragic and absurd position of the Grandees remained much as they are described in Don Quixote. But it was the people instead of the nobility who now played the exaggerated gallants, in imitation of the upper classes. Superficially Goya's criticisms of foppery, greed, or ignorance are typical of enlightened 18th century humor. But no one can fail to sense the darker moralism, especially in the demoniac fantasy of the second half of this set. The satire is direct when compared to the Proverbs...
This diversity and experimental nature are perhaps even more apparent in the advanced courses. For here, they afford the opportunity for courses which might otherwise not be possible. There is no particular focus or rationale on the upper level, except to encourage courses which cross departmental lines, or which could not fit conveniently into any single field of concentration...
...likely that the change is an HAA move to appeal to the upper income brackets. Nor does the growing number of television sets explain the problem. A long and confusing series of statements and counterstatements, involving the University's well known "advice of legal council," the Corporation's reluctance to be told where and when to do anything, and the intricacies of national-television programming lie behind the change...
...will welcome any stopgap measures towards relieving overcrowding in the Houses. The Administration has already taken several such measures this fall. Qualified seniors have been allowed to live in private quarters, and three additional buildings, one of which is very well equipped, have been set aside to house the upper class overflow. Even the placing of temporarily homeless students on daybeds for a couple of weeks, bothersome as this may be to their hosts, is preferable to last year's remedy of putting them on cots in the Indoor Athletic Building...
Yale University has announced the purchase of land for the construction of an eleventh upper class college. The new college, along with reductions in the number of freshmen admitted, should virtually claimant congested housing conditions, Yale officials believe...