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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...write-up in next year's catalog states, "the course will progress from an investigation of pure drama to an investigation of the uses of drama in lyric poetry, opera, the novel, the motion picture, and television...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alfred, Whitman Plan Varied Bibliography For Humanities 8 | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

...suggested, the College might outline a course coverage they think worthwhile. For while three years in some schools might put the student through trig and advanced algebra, in many others it covers only geometry and second year algebra. The College might instruct alumni to speak to local schools, and write schools which have sent students here, advising strongly that the more math an applicant has studied the better will be his chances...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Math and Admissions | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

Lehrer's "career" branched out from a pleasant habit of writing songs for people. 'In the old days," when it was for a roommate or a guy at dinner, I'd write hundreds of songs," Lehrer says. "Now that it's my living, I've stopped doing it. Then, if it was a lousy song, nobody cared. But when I started singing for money, it was a matter of deleting songs rather than adding them. I only write songs I can use professionally now, the other ideas are generally too personal or too offensive to use on the stage...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: 'The Guy Who Taught Us Math...' | 3/21/1959 | See Source »

Women who have made a "significant contribution" to American life will be featured in a biographical dictionary now being prepared under Radcliffe sponsorship. The work will contain brief write-ups of about 1,500 women and will comprise two or more volumes, according to Edward T. James '38, editor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cliffe Studies Noted Women | 3/17/1959 | See Source »

James is working with a 19-member committee headed by Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr., Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, Emeritus. The group will assist in selecting persons and in naming "a qualified individual" to write each biography...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cliffe Studies Noted Women | 3/17/1959 | See Source »

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