Word: benjamin
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...General Education in an Age of Specialization" will be examined at the August 8 public session. Benjamin F. Wright, President of Smith College, and former Chairman of the Committee on General Education at Harvard; Howard Bartlett, Head of the Department of Humanities, and John Morton Blum, Associate Professor of Humanities both at M.I.T.; Bart J. Bok, Professor of Applied Astronomy at Harvard; and Lincoln Gordon, Professor of International Economic Relations at the Harvard Business School, will participate...
...many a first-rate composer from moneygrubbing. (On the theory that too much money can be as destructive as too little, he has also vowed never to expose his daughter to the temptations of a large inheritance.) He regards as one of his major triumphs the liberation of Composer Benjamin Lees (TIME, May 7) from the stress of film music writing. "If Ben kept it up, he would go to pieces musically," says Fromm. Last week's Tanglewood concert helped to get Composer Epstein a music teaching job. "We need the young composers far more than they need...
When Kentucky's Governor A. B. (for Albert Benjamin) Chandler tried this spring to hand-pick the Democratic candidates in his state's two U.S. Senate races, he lost two quick falls to Senator Earle Clements and former Governor Lawrence Wetherby. Last week, in the latest round of Kentucky's Democratic wrestle, fast-moving "Happy" Chandler pinned both Clements and Wetherby to the mat and then began to stomp around the ring, waving and mugging at the crowd like a new champion...
Finally, "General Education at the Crossroads" will be the subject considered from August 6 to 8 by President Pusey, three other college presidents, Barnaby C. Keeney of Brown University, Benjamin F. Wright of Smith College and Earl J. McGrath of Kansas City, together with a number of deans and college professors...
...modern architecture in churches is just a fad, said Church Architect Benjamin F. Olsen of Chicago, president of the Illinois Society of Architects. "It reminds me of a naughty child, standing on his head to attract attention when company comes," he said. And, he asked, what will the modern ones look like in 25 years, after the "newness has worn...