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Dates: during 1950-1959
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* Whereas residents consume valuable dormitory space, commuters are a kind of "super-cargo," and in the face of tougher and tougher competition, the local boy will find it increasingly easier to gain admission to Harvard as a commuter than, say, to Yale as a resident. More and more, he will...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: Still Needed: 'Real House' for Non-Residents | 5/7/1959 | See Source »

Scientific proof, according to Pettigrew, has demonstrated that girls tend to be more proficient in verbal skills, whereas boy's abilities tend toward quantitative aptitudes. This "genuine difference" results from "reinforcement." From earliest childhood, girls are "reinforced" in clear writing and expression; boys, on the other hand, are often directed...

Author: By Pauline A. Rubbelke and Claude E. Welch jr., S | Title: Sexes Battle for Academic Superiority | 4/9/1959 | See Source »

Miss Schell, as the unfortunate Gervaise, gives a virtuoso performance, pulling out every emotional stop, but with a restraint that makes her suffering convincing. Her tears and her simpers are no doubt the best of their kind in the motion picture business, but whereas her recent Hollywood directors (who know...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: Gervaise | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

¶ "Merely symbolic art-art requiring a key-is always a door to a closet, whereas great art is an open door to great experience."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: School for Heroes | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

Walter J. Bate '39, Chairman of the Department, explained that the number of Honors theses submitted has jumped from around 75 to 105 in a single year, "creating some pressure on our graders." In addition, whereas undergraduates tend to prefer the modern period, many teaching fellows specialize on "earlier, more...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: English Teaching Fellows Protest Assignments for Grading Theses | 3/18/1959 | See Source »

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