Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surprise the critical. By its constitution the National Academy gives members the right to show one pic ture in the annual exhibition. Not all take advantage of this but there are 311 academicians. In addition, a certain number of artists are invited to submit works, which leaves precious little wall space for the thousands of uninvited canvases that the conservative hanging committee must annually examine, reject...
...sergeant greets his rank of recruits as ''Soldiers of Free Spain," shakes each by the hand, calls him ''Comrade!" When the Loyalist general is finally brought back, the treacherous Rebels manage to shoot him anyway. With their leader dead, the milicianos rush to their sandbag wall and laugh in hysterical, heroic rage as they pump bullets over the barricade. Purpose of the first performance of Spain Laughs was to see if a hand-picked audience would give enough encouragement to justify a Broadway opening. The partisan audience gave encouragement in plenty, though its drama-conscious members...
Exactly the same applies to the vice-president. His office has hardly more meaning than a diploma on the wall. In the case of the third officer an exception is possible; his task of transcribing the proceedings of the cabinet meetings and in general assisting his two colleagues accords with the significance of the position. In the last analysis the president must make his own job. And in consideration of the many associations he forms with settlement houses and men outside the University, in view of his supervisory capacity over the functions of the various committees--which involves more contacts...
Such reviews cannot drive tutoring schools to the wall, for they will not "spot" questions or feed students strained pap. That is not their purpose. But they can, if properly organized, perform an important and legitimate function--one sometimes provided by tutoring schools--that of crystallizing knowledge and remedying some of the notorious defects of Harvard's course instruction...
...stork will hang high and the red light will burn with extra vigor over the Lampoon building tonight as Lampy celebrates 60 years of existence behind its exclusive castle wall...