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...club should augment its $15,000 endowment and take up residence in its own clubhouse where Harvard gentlemen can sneak a smoke and a quick drink between court cases and bank transactions. But the recent grads, including most of the Harvard Club's one-year-old slate of officers, brush off the old school's contentions. "Look, Philadelphia is a Princeton town," says David R. Scott '60, a lawyer in one of the town's largest law firms and vice president of the club, explaining the odd placement of the Harvard room. "We are the poor sisters in this city...
...example. Close-set, irredeemably myopic, they tend to look out of alignment when the camera shoots her headon. If lighting, costume and camera angle are not exactly right, her 5-ft. 7-in. frame looks bottom heavy. Her voice skips from squeaky to strident without even a glancing brush at the tones in between...
...Brush With Yale...
...There have been several others in our generation who have celebrated the world around them, but none with that inevitability where the poetry penetrated every pore of the canvas to the very last touch of the brush For Avery was a great poet-inventer who had invented sonorities never seen nor heard before. From these we have learned much and will learn more for a long time to come...
Faculty Cut. N.Y.U. could use some of that support. One of the largest private universities in the nation, it has an enrollment of nearly 40,000 students and is just recovering from a brush with fiscal disaster. In 1972 N.Y.U. faced a $7.9 million deficit, and the trustees had to embark on an austerity drive. They sold the university's second campus, ten miles uptown from the main campus in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, dropped its engineering school, and cut the full-time faculty from 2,200 to 1,965. This year the deficit is down...