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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...money backer modern art has ever known was the late Solomon R. Guggenheim, multi millionaire mining magnate (Alaskan copper, Chilean nitrate, Bolivian tin) who late in life switched from collecting traditional Dutch masters to avant-garde art under the tutelage of his good friend and mentor, Baroness Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen, set up Manhattan's Museum of Non-Objective Painting. Two years ago his nephew, Harry F. Guggenheim, announced a biennial, round-the-world search for new paintings, established a purse of $10,000 for first prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: SINGING WALL | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

...Von Stade noted that "there was strong sentiment in faculty meeting three or four years ago to abolish all attendance taking. We decided to abandon the policy in all courses except those with more than 50 per cent freshman enrollment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Von Stade Advises Against Petition To Ban Freshman Assigned Seating | 10/31/1958 | See Source »

...most important jobs of the Dean of Freshmen is to "help students who are not mature enough yet to help themselves," according to Von Stade. "We have found over the years that if we can stop students from cutting classes early in their careers, they will profit more from their studies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Von Stade Advises Against Petition To Ban Freshman Assigned Seating | 10/31/1958 | See Source »

Freshmen should not "be treated like upperclassmen" as far as their studies are concerned, Von Stade emphasized. "There are so many of them with so many different backgrounds that it is impossible to assume that all will be able to handle complete freedom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Von Stade Advises Against Petition To Ban Freshman Assigned Seating | 10/31/1958 | See Source »

...Von Stade added that freshmen who use their class cuts unwisely may be excluded from a course at the instructor's request...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Von Stade Advises Against Petition To Ban Freshman Assigned Seating | 10/31/1958 | See Source »

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