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...most interesting, versatile and well-known art historians is speaking at Harvard tomorrow. Linda Nochlin, who's a professor at Vassar and whose books are recommended reading, at least, in Fine Arts 13 and most of the Fine Arts department's post-1800 courses, will be lecturing on Manet's Ball at the Opera at 4 p.m. in the Christian Room at the Fogg. Nochlin is a great scholar, but she's also written about problems of art and artists in our own time--the state of scholarship on women artists, the problems of government funding for art. It should...
...boys at Vassar and Sarah Lawrence were the B.M.O.C.s just a few years ago as women's colleges rushed to open their gates to men. The nationwide push for coeducation in the early '70s brought hard times to women's schools that chose to exclude men. Enrollment tumbled, alumnae panicked and school officials scrambled to recruit new students. Now, however, the picture is changing dramatically. All-women's colleges will open this fall with their highest enrollment in four years...
...Three cheers for Whestland!" Meanwhile the local officer of the law--clearly the big man in town--was strolling around as everybody said hello Bill, he being an uncle or cousin to most of them. The Scruggs Revue was definitely the high point of the evening. They were using Vassar Ciements then, and were restricted to pretty straight bluegrass, and the wheatlanders impressed upon them to do "Salty Dog" twice. I wonder if they remember this concert. Since than the two main one, Randy and Gary (State is a minor member, have reached maturity. They could play and sing like...
...head of a lion and the body of a lion, though not the same lion." "The Whore of Mensa" wittily plays with the idea of a brothel for intellectual entertainment. The madam has a master's degree in comparative literature; for a price, a curvaceous Vassar student can be had for an hour's chat about Herman Melville; "symbolism is extra...
Boston University, Temple, Vassar, the University of Vermont, Brown: the list of schools that have acknowledged problems with grade inflation is enormous...