Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last Thursday the Fogg Museum opened an exhibition of French painting of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries which is of significance not only for Harvard but for all followers of art in the neighborhood. Its importance lies in the fact that approximately one hundred paintings and one hundred and twenty-five drawings and prints have been brought together, covering the range of French pictorial art from the early nineteenth century classical revival of David through the romanticism of Delacroix and Gericault, to the pleinair and impressionistic schools in their various phases as represented by Corot, Millet, Monet, Manet, and Renoir...
Manhattan and its neighborhood last week was struggling to get out of its commercial airport muddle. It was the sort of struggle which other U. S. communities may be obliged to face...
Five of New York's fields are in Manhattan's close neighborhood. Roosevelt and Curtiss fields are on Long Island, an hour from Manhattan rail and mail terminals. Hadley Field, at New Brunswick, N. J., is also an hour away; and the Teterboro, N. J., port is about the same time-distance. Newark, N. J., with its new, partially completed $7,000,000 port is some-what closer. All are inconvenient to reach. And that inconvenience impedes air travel and even mail service. Air mail is generally slower than train mail between Manhattan and Boston, Albany, Philadelphia...
...object of the 'House' plan is not scholastic in the educational sense, it is not athletic, it is social. That is to say, the aim is to create a society. What is a society? The dictionary tells us 'it is composed of persons united by the common bond of neighborhood and intercourse and recognizing one another as associates, friends, and acquaintances.' The one and only object of the 'House' plan is to create societies exactly under this definition...
...What is, then, the idea of a 'House' or a society 'of persons united by the common bond of neighborhood and intercourse and recognizing one another as associates, friends, and acquaintances'? Clearly the essential is a combination of unity and diversity...